[OpenIndiana-discuss] Difference in plugin handling Firefox v 18 vs v 24??

[Peter Tribble]

On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 7:12 PM, Hans J. Albertsson <
hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:

> I tried looking for info on this but cannot find anything relevant.
>

It's well hidden...


> I upgraded firefox from v 18 to v 24 today, from the contributed esr pkg
> files on mozilla.
>
> I hade to revert to v 18, because plugins wouldn't work at all.
>
> I seem to remember something happening gto the plugin mechanisms sometime
> around v 20, but I cannot find anything succinct on this.
>

The plugins directory has moved from

.../firefox/plugins

to

.../firefox/browser/plugins

(which no longer exists by default), so you just need to put the
plugins in the new place.

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