weird Mozilla/Firefox behavior, location of plugins?

[Paul Higgins]

OK, I've got a weird one here...

I installed Firefox on my YDL 4.0.1 system a while ago, and I've been quite 
happy with it.  But in the process of testing out whether the Flash plugins I 
had installed were working or not, I wanted to get  my old version of Mozilla 
running.  Well, here's where it gets strange: "Web Browser" in the KMenu, 
which used to correspond to Mozilla, now launches Firefox.  (There is a 
separate listing for Firefox in KMenu).  So I try adding an application 
button to the panel, but since this is based on the listings in KMenu...well, 
you guessed it, there seems to be no way to get Mozilla running.  I guess 
I'll try using yum to remove and then reinstall Mozilla.

Anyway, is this some sort of bug in Firefox?  There have been some weird ones, 
like the one in the x86 version where you can't open a new tab when 
right-clicking on a link.  

I think the Flash plugins I installed are working OK (is there anything on the 
net that *doesn't* use Flash?!), but I noticed while rooting around in a 
terminal that Mozilla doesn't seem to have a plugins folder; /usr/bin/mozilla 
had a couple items in it (I think part of Helix Player, e.g. nphelix.so and 
nphelix.xpt), but no subdirectories for plugins.  Though there is 
a /usr/bin/plugins, which seems to be a general plugins directory.  Does 
everything share this directory?  I also noticed that my home mozilla 
directory (~/.mozilla) has nothing plugin-related except "pluginreg.dat" and 
a similar one farther in for Firefox (~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat). 

I take it this is one of the differences between Fedora and Debian?  Because 
my x86 work machine (which runs Debian) has quite a different directory 
structure.  On that machine, you must install plugins separately for each 
app.  I think for Mozilla it's /usr/bin/mozilla/plugins or something. 

Anyway, for now I copied (in a terminal as root) the plugins from the Adobe 
Flash download into /usr/bin/plugins and /usr/bin/mozilla, and I also 
installed the Flash animation plugins using Synaptic.  I should add that the 
Adobe installer for the Flash browser plugin apparently isn't smart enough to 
run on anything except x86; I had to do my installation manually.  At least 
they provide some instructions on this in a README file. 

Thanks,
-PRH