Re: Firefox 1.5 plugins

["[KS]" <lists04@fastmail.fm>]

Ken Wahl wrote:
> What worked for me was re-creating the symlinks that were in
> /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins in the new plugin folder for
> firefox 1.5 which is /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
> 
> For example with the flashplugin-nonfree..
> 
> cd /usr/lib/firefox/plugins
> ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/flashplayer.xpt flashplayer.xpt
> ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so libflashplayer.so
> 
> The above has to be done as root.
> 
> I also had to do this with my java , acrobat and helix player plugins.
> The only plugins that automagically made the transition were the
> mplayer plugins.
> 
> HTH
> 

I think I can just copy the symlinks from my
/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins to /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and it
should work fine. But the upgrade should have been smart enough to copy
the symlinks automatically. Or atleast there should be a warning before
the upgrade starts.

/ks