[Mozilla Enterprise] Install location of Flash plugin on Linux for ESR 78 ?

[James Pearson]

Thanks - that works!

James Pearson

Mike Kaply wrote:
> 
> Apparently it was deliberate. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580282
> 
> MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH was brought back to work around it:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602308
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 8:02 AM James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com<mailto:james-p at moving-picture.com>> wrote:
> I notice the first 'candidate' release of ESR 78 is available via
> http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/78.0esr-candidates/
> 
> I've installed ESR 78 on Linux (x86_64) plus the latest Flash plugin
> under browser/plugins/ in the Firefox install directory - which is where
> I've put it for all previous installs of ESR - but the plugin is not found
> 
> If I put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, then it
> is found
> 
> So I'm guessing that the browser/plugins/ location under the install
> directory has been removed as a possible location for plugins - anyone
> know why? Is this a 'bug' or a 'feature' ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James Pearson