Why chrome doesn't see plugins installed into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins?

[Mark Atkinson]

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On 11/16/2012 16:57, Yuri wrote:
> On my system chrome has different set of plugins than firefox.
> Firefox has many more. It looks like chrome only picks them from 
> ~/.mozilla/plugins, while firefox also looks for them in 
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins. Some plugins only get installed
> into the latter directory, for ex. www/plugger installs
> /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/plugger/npplugger.so and it doesn't
> appear in chrome at all unless one makes a symbolic link in
> ~/.mozilla/plugins.
> 
> So why chrome isn't looking in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins?
> 
> Yuri


It may be looking there, but you really can't tell unless you run
chrome from a terminal with:

chrome --debug-plugin-loading

and analyze the output.


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