Flash plugin - where?

[James Hubbard]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Timothy Murphy <tim at maths.tcd.ie> 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?


You're not the only one.  I copied it over to ~/.mozilla/plugins.