Bug 469932

Summary:	www-client/firefox-bin-21.0 cannot find plugins
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ortwin Glueck <odi>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bkohler, dschridde+gentoobugs, follettoonip, mstomich, orzel, proteuss, pszmytka, vltg0903
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Ortwin Glueck 2013-05-15 09:25:03 UTC

As of firefox-bin-21.0 the plugins link must be created under /opt/firefox/browser. But nsplugins creates it in /opt/firefox. Thus adobe-flash is no longer working with firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
emerge firefox-bin adobe-flash
browse vimeo.com

Comment 1 Ortwin Glueck 2013-05-15 09:26:09 UTC

adding Jeff as he submitted the firefox-bin ebuild

Comment 2 szmytson 2013-05-16 07:13:25 UTC

I can confirm this bug.
Simple workaround:
 cd /opt/firefox/browser
 sudo ln -s ../plugins .

Comment 3 Holger Hoffstätte 2013-05-16 12:21:50 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> I can confirm this bug.
> Simple workaround:
>  cd /opt/firefox/browser
>  sudo ln -s ../plugins .

This is not a bug but a deliberate change (see http://www.ghacks.net/2013/05/15/why-you-may-have-lost-access-to-plugins-or-extensions-in-firefox-21/)

Moving the plugins link into the browser directory is the correct course of action.

Comment 4 Ben Kohler gentoo-dev

2013-05-16 23:50:17 UTC

I just worked around it at the eclass level like this:


--- nsplugins.eclass	2012-09-15 11:31:15.000000000 -0500
+++ nsplugins.eclass.1	2013-05-16 18:40:41.052430365 -0500
@@ -73,4 +73,5 @@
 	fi
 
 	dosym "${PLUGIN_BASE_PATH}/nsbrowser/plugins" "${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/plugins"
+	dosym "${PLUGIN_BASE_PATH}/nsbrowser/plugins" "${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/browser/plugins"
 }

Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-17 14:04:14 UTC

*** Bug 470162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-05-25 17:22:49 UTC

*** Bug 471254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Dennis Schridde 2013-05-25 18:01:53 UTC

This does not seem to be fixed. I installed firefox-bin-21.0 on Thu May 16 18:57:39 2013, and there was no revision bump since then, and I still see the broken behaviour.

Comment 8 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev

2013-05-28 13:45:29 UTC

(In reply to Dennis Schridde from comment #7)
> This does not seem to be fixed. I installed firefox-bin-21.0 on Thu May 16
> 18:57:39 2013, and there was no revision bump since then, and I still see
> the broken behaviour.

There is no revision bump on eclass changes, you can sync up and re-emerge for a proper plugin setup.

Comment 9 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-06-10 12:25:31 UTC

*** Bug 472798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***