[gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-bin?

[gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-bin?

[walt]

After years of compiling firefox I decided that I get no advantage
from doing it :p

So I just emerged firefox-bin and discovered that it doesn't find
any of the plugins in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins.

The gentoo ebuild patches the source code to use nsbrowser/plugins
for the default plugins location, but the firefox-bin ebuild can't
patch the source code so it does something different, and on this
machine it doesn't work.

I just finished downgrading this particular machine from ~x86 to
plain x86, so there may indeed be something wrong in my general
environment.

Anyone here running firefox-bin, and how does it find your plugins?

(There are at least two easy ways to fix the problem.  You can
make a symlink from /usr/lib/nsbrowser to /usr/lib/mozilla, or
you can make a symlink from /opt/firefox/plugins to
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins, either method works.)