On 12/11/2011 11:27 AM, Natxo Asenjo wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Yasha Karant<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> Up until I switched the last enduser system to EL 6 (SL 6) from EL 5 a few
>> months ago, I was installing all of the Mozilla end user suites with no
>> issue from the Mozilla site:  Firefox, Thunderbird/Lightning, and Seamonkey.
>>   These were not the RPMs but rather the compressed tar files that I simply
>> untar into a subdirectory (generally, /usr/lib/foobar as in /usr/lib/firefox
>> -- and run /usr/lib/firefox/firefox ).
>
> I have downloaded the 64bit version from the mozilla ftp site and it
> does work out of the box. However, no plugins are detected.
>
> I have uncompressed the tar file in /usr/local/firefox, by the way,
> but not a huge difference.
>
> Has anyone gotten the 64 bit firefox version to work from mozilla.org
> and SL 6.1 with flash/java/etc. ?
>
> TIA,
>

In Firefox, on the top menu bar

Tools --> Add Ons --> Plugins

displays which plugins Firefox recognizes.

However, Firefox seems to require that plugins are in a specific 
directory.  If memory serves, this directory is:
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

In my case,

ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

yields

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     39 Nov 18 15:56 libflashplayer.so -> 
/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   4332 Nov 24  2010 
librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  94248 Nov 24  2010 libtotem-cone-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 102784 Nov 24  2010 libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  68600 Nov 24  2010 libtotem-mully-plugin.so
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  77188 Nov 24  2010 libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     39 Nov 18 14:50 nphelix.so -> 
/opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root     40 Nov 18 14:50 nphelix.xpt -> 
/opt/real/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt

for the actual plugins and any related files

These are actual plugins, not helper applications.

Yasha Karant