CetnOS 5.1, JRE 6 and Firefox 3.0.4 Plugin Driectory

metallica1973 · 12-11-2008, 08:22 AM

I am using CentOS 5.1,JRE 6 and am trying to create a symbolic link to the firefox plugin directory like the Sun Microsystem website says to do. The problem is that when I do a search like firefox version 3.0.4 it does not have a plugin directory for me to create a symbolic link to. I certainly do have plugins because the browsers says so. So my question is where does Firefox version 3.0.4 keep it plugin directory? Or is there another way around this?

fordeck · 12-12-2008, 06:58 AM

I'm using CentOS 5.2, and this is what I found:

Code:

$ pwd
/home/<user_name>/.mozilla/firefox
$ ls
88abrgej.default  pluginreg.dat  profiles.ini
$ cat pluginreg.dat 
Generated File. Do not edit.

[HEADER]
Version:0.08:$

[PLUGINS]
/usr/java/jre1.6.0_05/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so:$
:$
1203674277000:1:5:$
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_05:$
Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_05-b13:$
33
0:application/x-java-vm:Java::$
1:application/x-java-applet:Java::$
2:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1:Java::$
3:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.1:Java::$
4:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2:Java::$
5:application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.3:Java::$
6:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2:Java::$
7:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.1:Java::$
8:application/x-java-applet;version=1.2.2:Java::$
9:application/x-java-applet;version=1.3:Java::$
10:application/x-java-applet;version=1.3.1:Java::$
11:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4:Java::$
12:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.1:Java::$
13:application/x-java-applet;version=1.4.2:Java::$
14:application/x-java-applet;version=1.5:Java::$
15:application/x-java-applet;version=1.6:Java::$
16:application/x-java-applet;jpi-version=1.6.0_05:Java::$
17:application/x-java-bean:Java::$
18:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1:Java::$
19:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.1:Java::$
20:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.2:Java::$
21:application/x-java-bean;version=1.1.3:Java::$
22:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2:Java::$
23:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.1:Java::$
24:application/x-java-bean;version=1.2.2:Java::$
25:application/x-java-bean;version=1.3:Java::$
26:application/x-java-bean;version=1.3.1:Java::$
27:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4:Java::$
28:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.1:Java::$
29:application/x-java-bean;version=1.4.2:Java::$
30:application/x-java-bean;version=1.5:Java::$
31:application/x-java-bean;version=1.6:Java::$
32:application/x-java-bean;jpi-version=1.6.0_05:Java::$

I'm assuming your symbolic link should point to:

/home/<user_name_here>/.mozilla/firefox

You might try that as that is where the pluginreg.dat file is located.

Regards,

Fordeck

metallica1973 · 12-12-2008, 02:17 PM

Actually I figured it out. You would think that logically they would put in the same directory as the libraries but in this case they put in under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and not in the same directory /usr/lib/firefox. Why not consolidate? thanks anyways