115396 - Add context menu for default (missing) plugin

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Damian Yerrick]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011213
BuildID:    2001121309

If a user doesn't have a plug-in installed, the EMBED tag displays
a "puzzle piece" icon. It would be nice if I could right-click the
puzzle piece to save the linked media file in order to view it in
an external program.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you don't have QuickTime's plug-in (or any other
   plug-in that can play MIDI files, such as the troublesome Plugger)
   installed.
2. Open the attached test case, or any page that uses the EMBED
   element to play a MIDI file.
3. Right-click the "Click here to find a plugin" area.

Actual Results:
A window appears containing a banner and a link to Netscape.com to
search for plug-ins that can play MIDI files.  In other words, it
treats right-clicks as left-clicks.

Expected Results:
A contextual menu appears, including options to open the file
referenced in the EMBED element's SRC attribute with an external
program and to save it to disk.

This is not bug 58723 (downloading the plug-in itself).  I'm pretty sure
it's not bug 88996 (plug-ins' own context menus not showing) either.

Comment 1

[Damian Yerrick]

Attachment: Zip archive of test case containing an HTML file and a MIDI file

Mirror of
http://yerricde2.student.rose-hulman.edu/bugzilla/embed-context.html

Note that the test case has no DOCTYPE because W3C never wrote EMBED
into any HTML standard.  (It has a doctype, but it's commented out.)

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Confirming that the default plugin treats right-clicks as left-clicks.  See 
also bug 83754, rewrite default plug-in in XBL.

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

The plug-ins triage team (av, beppe, peterl, serge and shrir) have reviewed this
issue and have made the following determination:

The current default plug-in will be replaced by a new plug-in, please see bug
83754. This request will be addressed at a later date.

Comment 4

[Logan Ingalls]

*** Bug 255704 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Josh Aas]

We don't have a default plugin any more.