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cami
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 Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 12:20 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Mozilla Firefox not detecting NPAPI plugins |
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After a recent upgrade of Firefox, it doesn't detect the Flash plugin anymore (edit: nor Java). Firefox simply behaves as if the plugin wasn't on disk at all. Chrome detects it just fine. I already tried:- rebuilding flash
- revdep-rebuild -i
- wiping ~/.mozilla completely
I'm stuck. What else could I do?
| Code: | $ equery l -F '[$location] [$mask] $cpv:$slot::$repo' firefox adobe-flash
* Searching for firefox ...
[I-O] [ ] www-client/firefox-21.0_beta5:0::mozilla
* Searching for adobe-flash ...
[IP-] [ ] www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.280:0::gentoo
$ equery u firefox adobe-flash
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for www-client/firefox-21.0_beta5:
U I
+ + alsa : Adds support for media-libs/alsa-lib (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
- - bindist : Flag to enable or disable options for prebuilt (GRP) packages (eg. due to licensing issues)
- - custom-cflags : Build with user-specified CFLAGS (unsupported)
- - custom-optimization : <unknown>
+ + dbus : Enable dbus support for anything that needs it (gpsd, gnomemeeting, etc)
- - debug : Enable extra debug codepaths, like asserts and extra output. If you want to get meaningful backtraces see http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml
+ + gstreamer : Adds support for media-libs/gstreamer (Streaming media)
+ + jit : Enable just-in-time compilation for improved performance. May prevent use of some PaX memory protection features in Gentoo Hardened.
+ + libnotify : Enable desktop notification support
+ + minimal : Install a very minimal build (disables, for example, plugins, fonts, most drivers, non-critical features)
+ + startup-notification : Enable application startup event feedback mechanism
- - system-cairo : <unknown>
- - system-jpeg : <unknown>
- - system-sqlite : <unknown>
- - wifi : Enable wireless network functions
* Found these USE flags for www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.280:
U I
- - 32bit : For amd64-multilib, installs the 32-bit plugin
+ + 64bit : For amd64-multilib, installs the native 64-bit plugin
+ + kde : Enables a KCM plugin for configuring flash player preferences
+ + sse2check : This flag, enabled by default, will check for sse2 support on your cpu and die if not found. If you are remote-building this package, you can disable this flag but you have been warned
- - vdpau : Enable the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix acceleration interface
$ ls -lh /usr/lib64/firefox/plugins/
insgesamt 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 66 29. Jan 22:32 javaplugin.so -> /usr/share/java-config-2/nsplugin/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7-javaplugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 54 5. Mai 13:52 libflashplayer.so -> /opt/Adobe/flash-player/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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| tbh, I'd leave it like that, not detecting flash. |
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cami
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 3:07 pm Post subject: |
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| unfortunately even in 2013 many websites still critically rely on it. |
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trippels
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Firefox now expects the plugin symbolic link here: /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/plugins.
So just move it from /usr/lib64/firefox/ to /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/. |
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cami
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| Posted: Sun May 05, 2013 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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hmm. does it look in any non-firefox-specific location as well?
Edit: the ebuild for www-client/firefox-21.0_beta5::mozilla contains a symlink from
/usr/lib64/firefox/plugins -> ../nsbrowser/plugins
however, it appears this should be
/usr/lib64/firefox/browser/plugins -> ../../nsbrowser/plugins
Manually changing this solved the problem, thanks a lot for the hint! I reported the issue to mozilla@gentoo.org. |
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Kaso_da_Zmok
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Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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| Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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the same here with firefox-bin 21 had to create symlink in the expected location
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ln -s /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins /opt/firefox/browser/plugins
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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 16 08:50 /opt/firefox/plugins -> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins
t3400 ~ # ln -s /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins /opt/firefox/browser/plugins
t3400 ~ # ls -l /opt/firefox/plugins
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 May 16 08:50 /opt/firefox/plugins -> /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins
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