[ale] Firefox plugins

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Tue May 23 05:57:41 EDT 2006


On Monday 22 May 2006 03:35 pm, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > On Monday 22 May 2006 10:13 am, roberth1954 at aim.com wrote:
> >> find / -name plugins
> >
> > I have a whole bunch.  Which is why I asked the question.
> >
> :-)
>
> Try this:
>
> find / -type d -name plugins.

I have 81 directories named 'plugins'.  The "-type d" is irrelevant.  6 of 
them look like the're related to mozilla products, which is why I wanted to 
know if there was a way to see which one was being used.

Firefox says I've got the plugin loaded (about:plugins), 

>
> That will show you a list of all directories that Mozilla will load
> plugins from.  If you use the earlier recommendation from roberth195
> then you will not only see the directories where the plugins are located
> (which is what you originally asked for) but also the plugins themselves
> (which is more than what you asked for, but what most people would want)
>
> hth,
>
> -Jim P.
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