Bug 445896

Summary: 32-bit browser on x86_64 does not see *any* plugins
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Ben Levenson <benl>
Component: firefoxAssignee: Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: desktop-bugs <desktop-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.2CC: zcerza
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-05-09 18:20:34 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Ben Levenson 2008-05-09 17:57:26 UTC 
Description of problem:
32-bit browser on x86_64 does not see *any* plugins

firefox-3.0-0.beta5.6.el5.x86_64
firefox-3.0-0.beta5.6.el5.i386
flash-plugin-9.0.124.0-1.el5.i386
acroread-plugin-8.1.2-1.el5.3.i386
java-1.4.2-ibm-plugin-1.4.2.10-1jpp.2.el5.i386
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.10-1jpp.2.el5.i386
java-1.4.2-ibm-1.4.2.10-1jpp.2.el5.x86_64

$ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/
libflashplayer.so  libjavaplugin.so  nppdf.so

$ ls /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/
libtotem-basic-plugin.so     libtotem-gmp-plugin.xpt
libtotem-basic-plugin.xpt    libtotem-mully-plugin.so
libtotem-complex-plugin.so   libtotem-mully-plugin.xpt
libtotem-complex-plugin.xpt  libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
libtotem-gmp-plugin.so       libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.xpt

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install ff.i386 and ff.x86_64 + some plugins
2. start ff.x86_64 - plugins work
3. start ff.i386 - about:plugins reports that no plugins are installed.
Comment 1 Ben Levenson 2008-05-09 18:20:34 UTC 
the plugins are initialized as expected if i edit /usr/bin/firefox to look
in /usr/lib and not /usr/lib64