Firefox 1.5 doesn't see my plugins from 1.0.7

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Firefox 1.5 doesn't see my plugins from 1.0.7

Post by Wally Balljacker » Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:08 am

After installing Firefox 1.5, none of my plugins which Mozilla, Firefox 1.0.7, and Epiphany have installed, get imported. If I manually copy all my plugins like libflashplayer.so, and libjavaplugin_oji.so to my /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory, from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins (1.0.7's directory. Debian renamed the 'mozilla-firefox' package 'firefox'), Firefox 1.5 sees the plugins but none of them work. Flash animations display blank white areas, and Java, Mplayer, OpenOffice, etc, don't do anything. Am I missing something? I've tried doing everything I can think of.
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Post by Gomer_X » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:39 pm

Jumping from version 1.0.x to 1.5 is a big step. It's not surprising that the plugin API isn't the same.

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Re: Firefox 1.5 doesn't see my plugins from 1.0.7

Post by treehead » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:41 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote:After installing Firefox 1.5, none of my plugins which Mozilla, Firefox 1.0.7, and Epiphany have installed, get imported. If I manually copy all my plugins like libflashplayer.so, and libjavaplugin_oji.so to my /usr/lib/firefox/plugins directory, from /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins (1.0.7's directory. Debian renamed the 'mozilla-firefox' package 'firefox'), Firefox 1.5 sees the plugins but none of them work. Flash animations display blank white areas, and Java, Mplayer, OpenOffice, etc, don't do anything. Am I missing something? I've tried doing everything I can think of.
;you'll more-than-likely need to reinstall those plugins.

;the good news is that 1.5 changes the updates engine, so maybe this will be the last time you'll have to do that.

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Post by dann » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:53 pm

I did not have this problem when trying out FF 1.5. I know there is an article out there somewhere on how to enable 1.0.x plugins under 1.5 (it's an about:config change, pretty easy; but I cannot find it).
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