I know that there are extensive, "proper" methods for installing Firefox plugins. However, I would like to know where the folder is for linking shared-object (.so
) files, such as libnpjp2.so
and libflashplayer.so
so that I can install plugins the "old-fashioned" way. In Firefox 21, I would have put it in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*[profile name].default/browser/plugins
but that folder is no longer there. It keeps jumping around as Firefox changes. In about:plugins
I still see all the plugins that I would have put there.
Can anyone tell me where the folder is? I already checked the folders in /usr/lib/firefox
and /usr/lib/mozilla
.
Best Answer
Acording to the Firefox developer documentation plugins live here:
MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH
environment variable~/.mozilla/plugins
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
(on non-Ubuntu 64-bit systems,/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
might be used instead)[Profile directory]/plugins
, where[Profile directory]
is a user profile directoryUpdate for Firefox >=52
As of Firefox 52 support for NPAPI plugins has been dropped. All plugins living in one of the above directories are ignored, with the exception of Adobe Flash.
If you installed Flash with the flashplugin-installer package, it's loaded through a symlink in
/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
that ultimately links to/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
.