Description of problem: An update to mozilla-1.0.2-2.7.3 leaves plugger in a lurch. The problem is that plugger rpm expects /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/plugger.so while new mozilla looks for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.2/plugins/. This affects also other plugins, not supplied by Red Hat (say java or flash). After moving all relevant links and files from /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.2/plugins and replacing /usr/lib/mozilla by a link to /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.2 plugins seem to work fine both in mozilla and in galeon (which relies on the same structure); at least where galeon still works.
mozilla should look for plugins in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins instead only /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.2/plugins. it's a bug in mozilla
Could this be relocated to Fedora Legacy, so a Mozilla update fixes it there?
I think that this report is now only of a historical value. Various version of mozilla will peek either in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins, or in /usr/lib/mozilla-<version>/plugins, or in _both_. Current versions seem to generally show the last behaviour. As for Legacy I do not see a reasonable way of fixing various issues, number of them quite serious, without replacing mozilla with a some decently current, with known bugs fixed, version.
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Historical leftover. Should be closed a long time ago.