Flash plugin - where?
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
D.Mierzejewski at icm.edu.pl
Tue Nov 18 13:14:02 UTC 2008
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:05:35PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>
> > When I install Flash plugin (or other Firefox plugins)
> > the plugin is installed in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ .
> >
> > These plugins are not listed when I enter "about:plugins" in Firefox,
> > and they do not appear to be active.
> >
> > However, if I link these plugin files to ~/.mozilla/plugins/
> > then they are listed and are active.
> >
> > Is this normally required?
> > Or have I omitted some step in installing plugins?
>
> Sorry to repeat an earlier posting,
> but I never got a response to what seems to me
> to be a fairly important question.
>
> Is this problem specific to me?
> Or does everyone using Firefox under F-10 have to make this link?
Is your firefox 32bit or 64bit? If the latter, then it won't look
for plugins in /usr/lib because it can't use them without nspluginwrapper.
Regards,
R.
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