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Why firefox 32 64 bit does not check /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins for libflashplayer.so

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uname -a Linux dbc 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 Firefox version 33.0.2 

file firefox firefox-bin

firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x8ffc335dd970a4ab7e726478afacb3df59cb6c21, stripped firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x8ffc335dd970a4ab7e726478afacb3df59cb6c21, stripped Error message: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

From strace: lstat("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=39, ...}) = 0 etc.

uname -a Linux dbc 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 Firefox version 33.0.2 file firefox firefox-bin firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x8ffc335dd970a4ab7e726478afacb3df59cb6c21, stripped firefox-bin: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=0x8ffc335dd970a4ab7e726478afacb3df59cb6c21, stripped Error message: LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so [/usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32] From strace: lstat("/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so", {st_mode=S_IFLNK|0777, st_size=39, ...}) = 0 etc.

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