[SOLVED] Firefox plugins aren't working

vertimyst · 2008-12-12 23:51:17

Hi,

I installed flash, java, and the mplayer-plugin following this wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Firefox#Plugins

However, my about:plugins reports no plugins installed, even after chmodding the /usr/lib/mozilla directory like it says. I've restarted Firefox as well, still no luck.

Any idea as to what's wrong?

Last edited by vertimyst (2008-12-13 19:41:02)

deej · 2008-12-13 18:47:19

Do you have a 'plugins' directory in your '.mozilla' folder ?
If not, just create one and try Firefox again.

Deej

pyther · 2008-12-13 19:11:46

When you have restarted firefox, did you run ps aux to make sure firefox wasn't still running. Sometimes firefox will be a pain and not kill itself.

vertimyst · 2008-12-13 19:39:55

I just checked about:plugins, and they're all listed now. Maybe rebooting fixed it; I hadn't thought of trying that, and I turned my computer off for the night.

Thanks anyway, though.

Super Jamie · 2008-12-19 11:23:38

I just had the same issue on a clean install.

I installed flashplugin and mplayer-plugin, I did chmod 755 as per the wiki, the permissions in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are correct, the files are actually in the plugins folder, the about:buildconfig is looking in /usr/lib for the mozilla folder, I created a blank plugins dir in ~/.mozilla, and ran "ps ax" when restarting firefox to make sure it was dead.

I ended up having to symlink the plugins dir into my home dir, which is a bit hacky, but at least it works.
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ~/.mozilla/

Mr.Elendig · 2008-12-19 16:36:58

Super Jamie wrote:

I just had the same issue on a clean install.
I installed flashplugin and mplayer-plugin, I did chmod 755 as per the wiki, the permissions in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins are correct, the files are actually in the plugins folder, the about:buildconfig is looking in /usr/lib for the mozilla folder, I created a blank plugins dir in ~/.mozilla, and ran "ps ax" when restarting firefox to make sure it was dead.
I ended up having to symlink the plugins dir into my home dir, which is a bit hacky, but at least it works.
ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins ~/.mozilla/

That is increddible ugly. Specially since you could simply have logged out/in or source /etc/profile.d/mozilla-common.sh

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[SOLVED] Firefox plugins aren't working

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