[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox Plugins

[terry]

It appears that there are several directories for plugins:
~/.mozilla/plugins/ ~/.firefox/plugins/ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/
So my question is;   In what order does firefox search for any particular
plugin?
What I ASSUME is that firefox first searches ~/.firefox/plugins/  then
~/.mozilla/plugins/  then /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ then
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/  But this is ONLY an assumption.  Am I right?  Or
not?
I know for sure is that ~/.mozilla/plugins/  comes before
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
And the reason I know this is that I recently had an older version of
libflashplayer.so in ~/.mozilla/plugins/  and had placed a newer version of
it in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/  and firefox kept using the older version
until I deleted it from ~/.mozilla/plugins/
  So it looks like firefox has 4 possible directories to look in for
plugins.
  And I suppose there are two possible questions that arise:
1) Does firefox really search all 4 directories?
2) If firefox does in fact search all 4 directories, in what order does it
search them?
       (There is probably a fairly simple/easy experiment one could preform
to prove and/or determine the exact order, I'm just not sure what it is...)

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