840472 - Plugins no longer recognized in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 549308

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Brad Jackson]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130212051652

Steps to reproduce:

Daily testing of 64-bit Linux trunk builds of Firefox.


Actual results:

A couple of days ago, my 64-bit Linux trunk builds of Firefox started showing no plugins installed. I tried symlinking the files in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and then the browser would show the plugins installed. It also detects plugins in $HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ if present.


Expected results:

Firefox for 64-bit Linux should continue to look for plugins in /usr/lib64/ for compatibility with current systems.

If this was a deliberate change, then this bug will serve as an FYI and provides a workaround.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Related: bug 549308.

You can try finding the more precise regression range, and then find the checkin at https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml

Comment 2

[Brad Jackson]

Feb 10 at 7PM CST is the last good build I have. I think my build from morning of Feb 11 had the problem.

Comment 3

[Brad Jackson]

After further testing, it looks like the older build was also ignoring the lib64 directory. Firefox was using the plugins subdirectory underneath where the firefox binary is. I had been symlinking plugins there, and I guess that support was removed.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Brad, I believe this is a dup of bug 549308. Can you check and mark the duplicate if appropriate?