I can not find the firefox plugin directory for firefox 15.0.1

[Alpha90]

I updated my version of Firefox today from what ever debian iceweasel was (3.6) i think to firefox 15.0.1 via manually installing from a tarball and i was in the process of configuring it when i realized that i can not install any of my plugins via symbolic links. To test i made symbolic links to both java and flash in multiple places:
/home/USER/.mozilla/plugins
/home/USER/.mozilla/firefox/plugins
/opt/firefox/plugins
/root/.mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins
/usr/lib/xulrunner.1.9.1/plugins

any yet firefox does not detect a plugin.
Has anyone run into this problem and fixed it?

[rokytnji]

$ locate libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so

But that is in AntiX since I don't know what you are running.

$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
@biker:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins$ ls
flash-mozilla.so libjavaplugin.so xineplugin.so
gxineplugin.so libvlcplugin.so

You can use the locate command to find

$locate libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/iceape/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/midbrowser/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
/usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/libjavaplugin.so
$

[Alpha90]

That works but it does not actually solve my problem. To be clearer my problem is not locating plugins for firefox my problem is locating where firefox scans every location comes up with a hit however firefox says i have no plugins. So what ever directory firefox is looking is returns a zero.

Also i know the plugins work as they worked on firefox 3.6 and they are working on a debian version of seamonkey just not firefox

[rokytnji]

Well, all my plugins whether using Iceweasel, Firefox, Opera, or Iceape are all found in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins folder. Whether Firefox 15.01 or Iceweasel 10.0.6esr-2, or iceape 2.7.5-1.

Posting from right now with a static install of Firefox 15.01 in

$ cd /opt
harry@biker:/opt$ ls
firefox  lxmed

Maybe you got a corrupted external Firefox download, or is this Iceweasel from the repos?


what version of Iceweasel? apt-cache policy iceweasel command should show what you upgraded to.

Edit:

Has anyone run into this problem and fixed it?

No. No problem here.

[Alpha90]

iceweasel was from the repos
Do you have a directory of /opt/firefox/plugins

[rokytnji]

Do you have a directory of /opt/firefox/plugins

No. I do not. I don't pull in plugins from .mozillia/plugins either. All my plugins are recognised from /usr/ib/mozilla/plugins folder.

[Alpha90]

Then i dont understand what is wrong with my copy i just double checked and added my plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins and nothing... Are you running a 32 bit install or 64 bit install OS? i am running 64 bit but im installing 64 bit plugins so i wouldnt need nswrapper would i?

[rokytnji]

My computers are mostly ancient. 32 bit installs.

ndiswrapper does not handle plugins. You don't need ndiswrapper for plugins any hows.

[rokytnji]

harry@biker:~
$ apt-cache policy iceweasel
iceweasel:
  Installed: 10.0.7esr-1
  Candidate: 10.0.7esr-1
  Version table:
 *** 10.0.7esr-1 0
        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
harry@biker:~
$ uname -a
Linux biker 3.3.5-antix.1-486-smp #1 SMP Wed May 9 16:44:25 EEST 2012 i686 GNU/Linux
harry@biker:~
$ cd /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
harry@biker:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
$ ls
flash-mozilla.so          gecko-mediaplayer-qt.so  gecko-mediaplayer.so
gecko-mediaplayer-dvx.so  gecko-mediaplayer-rm.so  gecko-mediaplayer-wmp.so
harry@biker:/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

I don't have java installed on this desktop install.

[Alpha90]

Is there a enviromental variable that points to that directory