Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 443584
does not intialize plugins when started via evolution
Last modified: 2008-07-26 17:32:55 EDT
Description of problem: Firefox does not initialize plug ins when started via evolution. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-3.0-0.55.beta5.fc9.i386 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Close Firefox 2. Open Evolution 3. Click on some link 4. In the appearing Firefox window, open about:plugins Actual results: No plugins are listed there: Neither Totem nor Flash. Expected results: Plugins should be listed. Close all Firefox instances again and start firefox via the applications menu. Recheck. You'll notice that about:plugins lists a bunch of plugins. Additional info:
It does not happen when you set the default browser to Firefox in gnome-default-applications-properties. But though having Firefox set there, it asks you if you want it to be the default browser. If you do this, the things above apply.
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I am seeing Firefox not load any plugins when it's loaded via its GNOME menu entry. It doesn't load any plugins from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins nor from /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped; however, it does load plugins from $HOME/.mozilla/plugins. As a workaround I have done: ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins-wrapped $HOME/.mozilla/plugins And this seems to get my plugins loaded. firefox-3.0-0.60.beta5.fc9.x86_64
Reporter, can you reproduce either your symptoms or what Michale describes in comment 3, please, with the upgraded Firefox?
This problem no longer occurs for me with firefox-3.0.1-1.fc9.x86_64 when it is loaded from the GNOME menu entry or from /usr/bin/firefox. All my 32-bit plugins (in fact, all of them) come up normally even without the workaround from comment #3.
Works fine for me now, too.