What happened : Firefox from www-client/firefox-bin-72.0.1 package do not look into /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins to detect plugins even though packages like www-plugins/adobe-flash will copy plug-in files aimed at ns/firefox browsers there. The quickfix I used : I had to create a symlink to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins manually in order to have firefox detect the flash plugin. The general problem : Nor firefox-bin or adobe-flash ebuilds create the necessary symlink nor firefox from firefox-bin package is configured to look in the /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins directory for plugins. Steps to reproduce the problem : 1 - emerge =www-client/firefox-bin-72.0.1 =plugins/adobe-flash-32.0.0.314 2 - open firefox 3 - go to about:plugins or try to use flash plugin 4 - firefox fail to register or to use the flash plugin. Thanks for your hard work !
I can reproduce this.
*** Bug 709522 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can confirm the issue but I have no idea how we can fix the problem. We can't just create a symlink: - Who should own that symlink? - If you install www-plugins/adobe-flash for ABI_X86="32 64" you will end up with /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so and /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so Now what? If we would have managed to install that symlink (maybe by a helper package which would just own that directory/symlink), we would now run into problems. But it looks like this is an upstream issue. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602308 ...
Same happens on 32-bit x86. Flash plugin is in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and firefox-bin 7x.0 sees nothing installed. firefox from source doesn't have this problem, but going that route as a workaround on my x86 machine is somewhat overkill.
(In reply to Anthony Parsons from comment #4) > Same happens on 32-bit x86. Flash plugin is in > /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/libflashplayer.so, and firefox-bin 7x.0 sees > nothing installed. > > firefox from source doesn't have this problem, but going that route as a > workaround on my x86 machine is somewhat overkill. x86 will not have an upstream binary soon. At that point if you stay with firefox you will still have to compile from source.
According to "See also" URL, the upstream fixed the issue, and Firefox 76 released and marked as stable in Gentoo as well. Are there any plans to address this issue in Gentoo?
Stables doesn't mean anything for -bin package. Please test... the wrapper script introduced some versions before sets MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH. If this is fixed, it should work...
Running firefox-bin like this helps: MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins" firefox-bin Otherwise it works as before, no plugin. As I can see from the wrapper script, it doesn't check /usr/lib64/nsbrowser/plugins, right?
Is this still relevant? Firefox dropped complete support for nsplugins?
