#8593 NORM 9.1.0: configure Firefox activity to share system plug-ins

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#8593: configure Firefox activity to share system plug-ins
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   Reporter:  skierpage         |       Owner:  cscott              
       Type:  defect            |      Status:  new                 
   Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  9.1.0               
  Component:  firefox-activity  |     Version:  not specified       
 Resolution:                    |    Keywords:  relnote polish:8.2.0
Next_action:  design            |    Verified:  0                   
  Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                      
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Changes (by skierpage):

  * keywords:  => relnote polish:8.2.0
  * next_action:  never set => design


Comment:

 From reading http://www.mozilla.org/docs/end-user/guide/get-started.html I
 tried
 {{{
 export MOZ_PLUGINS_DIR=/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins >> /home/olpc/.xsession
 }}}
 and that seemed to work like a champ:
 about:plugins listed Gnash and various Totem sets;
 http://www.skierpage.com/olpc/flash_tests/ works (and a URL ending in .swf
 plays, unlike bug # 8497 in Browse); a .ogg URL played a sound.
 I got the approach of modifying .xsession from
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Attaching_Sugar_Logs_to_Tickets ).

 Seems release-note worthy; I added it to
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Firefox

 FYI, the third directory that Firefox seems to scan for plugins is
 ~olpc/.sugar/default/org.laptop.FirefoxActivity/data/.mozilla/plugins, I
 guess that's the isolation equivalent of ~/.mozilla/plugins.  BTW I had to
 cd ~/Activities/Firefox-6.activity before I could run `strace -f -o ff.log
 sugar-launch Firefox` .

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8593#comment:3>
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