[ale] Firefox plugins

[William Witt]

It's my understanding that firefox still uses /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ 
to store any system wide plugins and ~/.mozilla/plugins/ for user specific

Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
>   
>> On Monday 22 May 2006 03:35 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>     
>>> David Corbin wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Monday 22 May 2006 10:13 am, roberth1954 at aim.com wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> find / -name plugins
>>>>>           
>>>> I have a whole bunch.  Which is why I asked the question.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Try this:
>>>
>>> find / -type d -name plugins.
>>>       
>> I have 81 directories named 'plugins'.  The "-type d" is irrelevant.  6 of 
>> them look like the're related to mozilla products, which is why I wanted to 
>> know if there was a way to see which one was being used.
>>
>> Firefox says I've got the plugin loaded (about:plugins), 
>>     
>
> In most cases the plugins directory will reside in a firefox directory, 
> so if you want to narrow your search, try:
>
> for dir in $(find / -type d -name '*firefox*' -print); do
> find $dir -name 'plugins' -print
> done
>
> That being said, your best way is to start with the path of the 
> executable, for example:
>
> rhws/home/esoteric> type firefox
> firefox is /usr/bin/firefox
>
> rhws/home/esoteric> file /usr/bin/firefox
> /usr/bin/firefox: symbolic link to `/usr/local/firefox/firefox'
>
> ls -l /usr/local/firefox/
>
> browserconfig.properties  libnss3.so          libxpistub.so
> chrome                    libnssckbi.so       mozilla-xremote-client
> components                libplc4.so          plugins
> defaults                  libplds4.so         readme.txt
> extensions                libsmime3.so        removed-files
> firefox                   libsoftokn3.chk     res
> firefox-bin               libsoftokn3.so      run-mozilla.sh
> greprefs                  libssl3.so          searchplugins
> icons                     libxpcom_compat.so  updater
> libmozjs.so               libxpcom_core.so    updater.ini
> libnspr4.so               libxpcom.so         xpicleanup
>
>
> Looking at the above listing, you'll find a plugins directory.
>
> If you've got multiple versions of firefox installed, you need to find 
> the plugins directory for the version you're running..
>
>
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