[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox Plugins

[Robert Pearson]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:56 AM, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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Here is what Mozilla has to say:
[Most relevant]
<http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20plugins>
Use the procedure ---
<http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20plugins#w_manually-uninstalling-a-plugin>
The procedure lets Firefox tell you where it believes the plugin is
located. That should be where it looks first.

[Check Your Plugins]
<http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/>

[Main Support Page]
<http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/home>

[Disclaimer]
I got these URLs from PCLinuxOS 2010 using Firefox 4.0.