FS#12974 - Firefox Plugins are not installed in the proper directory

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jacob (Hardrive) - Sunday, 25 January 2009, 19:17 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 10:44 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture x86_64
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Please be patient with me. This is my first bug report, so I'm sorry if this is not in the correct format or if I didn't give the right information.

I installed firefox 3.0.5-1, flashplugin 10.0.d21.1-1, and openjdk6 1.3.1-2 through pacman. I loaded up Firefox, but Flash and Java didn't work. So, I checked about:plugins, but there were no plugins listed. Apparently Firefox searches for plugins in /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins, not /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (which is where pacman installed the plugins). So, I did a "ln -sv /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/firefox-3.0/plugins", which fixed my problem.

A similar problem was reported on the Arch Linux Forums about a month ago, but the solution differs from mine:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=60834
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 26 January 2009, 10:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#12535 
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Sunday, 25 January 2009, 20:08 GMT
Try logging out and logging back in.
See  FS#12535 
Comment by Jacob (Hardrive) - Sunday, 25 January 2009, 21:39 GMT
I removed the symlink, logged out, logged it, and then it worked just fine. That's strange, I would have never thought to do that.

Thanks for the tip.

I guess this isn't really a bug then.

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