On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 02:11:08PM -0400, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2015 1:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> >   Can I ask why binary Firefox not using /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins ?
> >This is firefox bug ?
> 
> No, this is intentional. The directory layout of Linux systems varies by OS.
> So for instance on most debian-based systems, the 64-bit lib go into
> /usr/lib and the 32-bit ones go into /usr/lib32. But on redhat/fedora-like
> systems, 32-bit is in /usr/lib and 64-bit is in /usr/lib64.

Debian systems also have a /usr/lib64 symlink to /usr/lib

> So what we've decided to do for our Linux binaries is look in
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins in all builds: all 32-bit and 64-bit builds look in
> the same place.

That's actually not true. The builds shipped by mozilla.org should be
looking in /usr/lib64 because of
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/xre/nsXREDirProvider.cpp#1367

Mike
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