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03-27-2009, 12:14 PM
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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: Deerfield MA
Distribution: OpenSuSE, Kubuntu
Posts: 293
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Where are the Firefox plugins?
How do I find the correct location for the Firefox plugins? There are several directories that seem to have Firefox files: /opt/firefox, /usr/lib/mozilla, /usr/lib/firefox, etc. The Firefox docs just refer to "your Firefox directory", but I don't know which one that is. And it seems to change if, for example, I switch from the Mozilla installation to the Kubuntu installation.
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03-27-2009, 12:43 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: Somewhere inside 9.9 million sq. km. Canada
Distribution: Slackware 15.0, current, slackware-arm-currnet
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If your binary firefox files were installed to /opt/firefox, go there, and you should see several directories, one will be plugins. This is where you install your plugins. Anything with lib in it, will have library files.
On my system, I have firefox 3.0.5 installed. I downloaded this version and installed myself, so the package manager has not messed with it. The directory for plugins is /opt/firefox/firefox/firefox/plugins.
I also have 3.0.7 installed by the package manager. I had to put the plugins in my home directory.
Here is that structure. /home/myuser/.mozilla/plugins/ The . in front of mozilla makes the directory hidden. This set up allows each user to have their own plugins setup. Firefox bin files are in /usr/bin/ . I don't know why Mandy does it this way, but it works.
Hope this helps.
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03-27-2009, 04:44 PM
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Location: Deerfield MA
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Where does Firefox store the path to the plugins that it actually uses?
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Originally Posted by camorri
If your binary firefox files were installed to /opt/firefox, go there, and you should see several directories, one will be plugins. This is where you install your plugins. Anything with lib in it, will have library files.
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My problem is that because I installed both the Ubuntu version and the Mozilla version, I'm not sure which one is actually active. If $(which firefox) was a symlink I might be able to tell, but it isn't. So I'm wondering if somewhere in Firefox's tools, preferences, etc., the operative path might be stored.
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03-27-2009, 06:20 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
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One way to find out, if you have a desktop icon to start firefox, is to right click, look at properties, and click on the application tab. The path to the executable should be there.
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