no plugins show up in about:plugins

[Garrett Hartshaw]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.5

The only plugin that shows up in about:plugins is the Default Plugin (File name: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libnullplugin.so). I have other plugins copied into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ that do not show up (e.g. flash).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 3df1ff5b432e6d651111bee856d71ae7
CheckboxSystem: e704f33cc0866ff0f0256a33de39ea1c
Date: Sat Dec 19 00:02:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.5 3.5.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.10.1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic x86_64

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox -ProfileManager

[Garrett Hartshaw (ghartshaw)]

On 12/19/2009 06:46 PM, Micah Gersten wrote:
> Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can
> become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try
> this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not
> need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want
> to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one
> until you find the problematic one.
>
> You can start the profile manager with the following command:
> firefox -ProfileManager
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
>
I don't know why, but the plugins just showed up again. I did just
install 3.6b5 as well as 3.7a1pre if that could have anything to do with it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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