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

[Mike Kaply]

Hey, you seem like a perfect candidate to review something for me if you
have a chance. We're introducing an enterprise release notes document. Let
me know what you think:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1h8jc2ClAiNqnPsHvGXOiBy4kmSEY4xZXljjvqcOx8Ao/edit?usp=sharing

I've added you as a commenter if you have any suggestions.

This first one is a little dense because it covers 68 to 78.

Mike

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 9:19 AM James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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