145263 - add Adobe SVG Viewer 6 to autoscan for plugins

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, defect, P5)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

Now that we have auto scan to plugins like plugin.scan.SunJRE I would really
like to have Adobe SVG Viewer added to the like.

currently you have to manually copy this file:
NPSVG3.dll
to the plugin folder.

the location of the plugin can be found be looking the this reg.db value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe SVG Viewer\3.0\dir
which on my Win2k pc have:
C:\WINNT\System32\Adobe\SVG Viewer 3.0\

so perhaps we could have plugin.scan.AdobeSVG

20020516

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

I'll take this, but futuring because we can't do this right now because the
Adobe SVG plugin 3.0 uses unfrozen interfaces and is known to crash. I could be
wrong here, but I also think it is not listed as a Netscape or AOL tier1 plugin
so it is difficult to justify adding this new pref.

Comment 2

[Henrik Gemal]

"Adobe SVG plugin 3.0" is a crash and burn with daily Mozilla...:)
so I understand.

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

u are right, peter.

Comment 4

[Peter Lubczynski]

setting to distant future, but this could be fixed as a side-effect of the
plug-in manager.

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

*** Bug 165014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Red Wolf]

SVG Viewer 3.0 crashes Mozilla 1.1 (20020826)

Comment 7

[Phillip Stewart :P]

Adobe SVG Viewer 6.0 preview 1, currently win32 only, works great with Firebird
and does not cause crashes.

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

The Adobe SVG Viewer 6 now works fine in both Mozilla and Firebird.

The location of the plugin can be found be looking the this reg.db value:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Adobe SVG Viewer\6.0\dir
which on my WinXP is:
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\SVG Viewer 6.0\

Comment 9

[Peter Lubczynski]

The SVG plugin (and all others) can help itself and be automatically recognized
if their installer would write the keys described in this document:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/first-install-problem.html

Any plugin that writes its key here will be automatically found:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MozillaPlugins

Since it sounds like the SVG 6.0 plugin is still in preview, perhaps the Adobe
folks could be informed of this key and add it before the final release

Comment 10

[Henrik Gemal]

I've submitted a bug report and a feedback form to Adobe. If anybody got an
inside contact at Adobe please write them...

Comment 11

[Alan Batie]

(In reply to comment #8)
> The Adobe SVG Viewer 6 now works fine in both Mozilla and Firebird.

Where do you get Viewer 6?  I just downloaded the one the plugin loader takes
you to, and it turns out to be 3.0 which crashes and burns...

Comment 12

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

(In reply to comment #11)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > The Adobe SVG Viewer 6 now works fine in both Mozilla and Firebird.
> 
> Where do you get Viewer 6?  I just downloaded the one the plugin loader takes
> you to, and it turns out to be 3.0 which crashes and burns...
> 
> 
I think here: http://www.adobe.com/svg/viewer/install/beta.html

Comment 13

[fxper]

(In reply to comment #8)
> The Adobe SVG Viewer 6 now works fine in both Mozilla and Firebird.

Not anymore. 

Comment 14

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #8)
> > The Adobe SVG Viewer 6 now works fine in both Mozilla and Firebird.
> 
> Not anymore. 

I haven't used it very extensively, but it still seems to for me.

This should perhaps at least wait until bug 115528 is fixed?

Comment 15

[u295173]

I think this bug can bed closed, because the viewer is not supported anymore and firefox has its own svg implementation

Comment 16

[mozilla]

(In reply to comment #15)
> I think this bug can bed closed, because the viewer is not supported anymore
> and firefox has its own svg implementation
> 

Looking at http://www.codedread.com/images/svg-support.png i'd say ASV6 still has its use, hopefully not much longer though

Comment 17

[Helder "Lthere" Magalhães]

(In reply to comment #15)
> I think this bug can bed closed, because the viewer is not supported anymore
> and firefox has its own svg implementation

Agreed, IMHO this should be marked fixed (invalid), as the root cause is in a software product (ASV) which was publicly discontinued [1] (aside from not being supported for a while). A similar action was already done for bug 133567.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/svg/eol.html