Apparently it was deliberate. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580282

MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH was brought back to work around it:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602308

Mike

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 8:02 AM James Pearson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I notice the first 'candidate' release of ESR 78 is available via
> http://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/78.0esr-candidates/
>
> I've installed ESR 78 on Linux (x86_64) plus the latest Flash plugin
> under browser/plugins/ in the Firefox install directory - which is where
> I've put it for all previous installs of ESR - but the plugin is not found
>
> If I put it in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ or /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/, then it
> is found
>
> So I'm guessing that the browser/plugins/ location under the install
> directory has been removed as a possible location for plugins - anyone
> know why? Is this a 'bug' or a 'feature' ?
>
> Thanks
>
> James Pearson
>
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