Comments on: Installing Firefox 4.0 under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x http://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/?p=4653 Western Civilization Writ Small Fri, 03 May 2013 05:00:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Daniel http://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/?p=4653&cpage=1#comment-14487 Daniel Sat, 27 Aug 2011 14:43:43 +0000 http://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/?p=4653#comment-14487 Firefox is uses a path variable to find plugins, regardless of where Firefox itself were installed. Thus, the location for the globally-installed plugins needn't (and normally shouldn't) reflect the location of Firefox itself any more than do locations for account-specific plugins.

The plugins to be installed for all accounts should normally be in

/usr/share/mozilla/plugins

(for 32- or 64-bit Linux), or in

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

(for 32-bit Linux) or in

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

(for 64-bit Linux).

The plugins to be installed for a specific account should be in its

~/.mozilla/plugins

(Usually, that detail is something that one ignores, as it is handled by the normal installation process.)

There are reasons for installing some plugins globally, but be mindful that some user may not want this-or-that plugin installed for a given account.

]]> By: Marti http://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/?p=4653&cpage=1#comment-14483 Marti Sat, 27 Aug 2011 09:19:38 +0000 http://www.oeconomist.com/blogs/daniel/?p=4653#comment-14483 With respect to the new /opt/firefox directory that is created, should one also then create a plugins director and then copy ove the contents from here?

/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins

Thanks

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