Comment 46 for bug 428306

(In reply to Chris Coulson from comment #14)
> Whilst normalize() works for us, it probably wouldn't work in all cases (ie,
> if the application directory can move around and nobody symlinked the
> distribution folder to a stable path).

As a simple interim solution for what is kind of an edge case, this doesn't seem so bad.

> Would you accept something like the attached patch (which basically treats
> distribution/searchplugins as a known location)?

Maybe, though I would prefer just taking the normalize() patch, I think.