No Firefox Plugins in SUSE 11.0

[dch53]

I've just upgraded to SUSE 11.0 from 10.3. Firefox 3.0 is showing no plugins and yet browser plugins are present in usr/lib64/browser-plugins.

Is Firefox supposed to look in this directory automatically, or do I have to do something?

Thanks.

[caf4926]

You shouldn't have a problem. Assume by upgrade you mean a install of OS11 and keeping /home, otherwise a new install to /

And FF is installed from the install dvd?

in your ff location bar:

about:plugins

gives what?

[dch53]

Very mysterious. The first time I ran aboutlugins, it came back with "no plugins". I closed firefox, restarted it and tried again to confirm the exact response, and now all the plugins appear.

Fingers crossed that it stays that way!

[dch53]

Thanks for your response. You solved my problem, albeit indirectly! When I started Firefox from my thread reply email notification, I had plugins. When I started it from my panel shortcut, I didn't.

A quick bit of investigation showed that my shortcut was set to /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox whereas the preferred application setting was "firefox %s".

I've now changed by panel shortcut to just "firefox" and I have plugins.

Thanks again!