140941 - [RFE] Move Plugin folder out of Mozilla folder

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 76015

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Bamm Gabriana]

It might be a good idea if Mozilla's plugin folder were in another
location. I would suggest C:\Windows\Application Data\Mozilla\Plugins
for Windows 98.

Some advantages:

1) Downloading a new nightly you don't need to copy plugins again.

2) Plugin installations that recognize Netscape 6 will copy them
   there and it would automatically work for Mozilla.

3) It is still outside of the Profiles folder, so it would still be
   shared by all profiles.

Of course the Application Data folder varies depending on platform,
and we should use that instead.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> Plugins and NEW (Reporter: Please select the correct component the next time)

Comment 2

[Jerome Lacoste]

what about installing two versions of the browser that requires different
versions of the pluggins? Are these versions identified by their differing name?
Can this introduce a conflict?

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

Um...WONTFIX? We already do this on NT-based platforms:
%USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Mozilla\plugins will be the SECOND location the
browser looks for plugins. 

The FIRST location is set by the environment variable MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH.

The THIRD location is your applicatioin's plugins folder.

The LAST location for selected Tier1 plugins is the 4.x folder as defined by the
Windows registry.

Comment 4

[Bamm Gabriana]

Jerome: different versions of the same plugin have different file names,
so this should not be a problem.

Comment 5

[Bamm Gabriana]

Peter: is it just NT, or do other platforms also do this? The n.p.m.*
newsgroups are swamped with questions like "I installed java/flash plugin
but it doesn't work in Mozilla."

Actually it does work in Mozilla, but the installer does not know about
Moz, much less copy the required files to Moz's plugins folder. This RFE
should fix that, because installers recognize Netscape 6.

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

putting this in the future milestone, all enhancements will be reviewed for 
possible inclusion

Comment 7

[Peter Lubczynski]

See: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133282

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> different versions of the same plugin have different file names

This is in fact not true (at least for acrobat, last I checked, possibly for
others).

Comment 9

[rubydoo123]

The plug-ins triage team (av, beppe, peterl, serge and shrir) have reviewed this
issue and have made the following determination:

marking as dup of independent location bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 76015 ***

Comment 10

[Bamm Gabriana]

Ok. Verified.