549308 - Mozilla Linux x86-64 builds should search /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins (and 32-bit should search /usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Currently, Mozilla Linux x86-64 nightlies search /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins for plugins. At least on FC distros, the paths are:


/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: 32-bit
/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins: 64-bit

Unfortunately, ubuntu does just the opposite:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins: 64-bit
/usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib
/usr/lib32/mozilla/plugins: 32-bit

I don't think we can blindly search both/all locations because we'll find plugins twice on ubuntu, unless we add code to normalize/check identical symlinks. We also don't invalidate the cached plugin info when we switch between 32-bit and 64-bit builds, which is at least painful for me. I'll investigate some options.

Comment 1

[Barry Jackson]

What happened with this?
We are still seeing this behavior in current Nightly on Mageia x86_64.
Plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins are not found, they are only found when copied to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins.
Can this be fixed, as this bug report is 18 months old?

Comment 2

[Ali Sobhi]

I just ran into this bug. I moved from 32-bit machine to 64-bit Intel running RHEL 6.1
The standard distro supplied and company blessed Firefox-3 64-bit which is delivered through yum channels picks up the /usr/lib64/mozilla/..... correctly.

I just tried the Firefox 7.0.1 (64-bit) .tgz file, it did not pickup the 64-bit plugins at all.
I tried LD_LIBRARY_PATH but that didn't help either.

So on my 64-bit RHEL 6.1, Firefox 3.6.23 (64-bit) picks up the plugins (lib64) but Firefox 7.0.1 does not

Firefox 3 comes from yum repo, but I used Firefox FTP download to get to Firefox 7.0.1

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

This is also a problem when installing the official Flash player RPM from adobe.com. For instance, flash-plugin-11.2.202.616-release.x86_64.rpm installs libflashplayer.so under /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/, which is ignored by Firefox 64 bits.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Resolving as wont fix, plugin support deprecated in Firefox 85.