243902 - about:plugins includes a link to netscape

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jesse Weinstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514

Near the top, about:plugins has a line that says: "Find more information about
browser plug-ins at Netscape.com." with the Netscape.com linking to
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/index.html  Shouldn't we remove this since
Mozilla is no longer affiliated with Netscape?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Why remove it? It has some good information and a collection of plugins (or
download links to them), so i think we should keep that link.

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

according to bug 58291, this will be solved with bug 83754

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83754 ***

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

neither of those bugs seem to be about about:plugins...

Comment 4

[Jesse Weinstein]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Why remove it? It has some good information and a collection of plugins (or
> download links to them), so i think we should keep that link.

While the page does seem to have some useful information, if Mozilla is not
affiliated with Netscape we probably shouldnt have a direct link to a netscape
page embeded in the source.  Directly below the Netscape link is a link to
plugindoc.mozdev.org; if the info at netscape is useful, we could add a link to
it off that page.

(In reply to comment #3)
>neither of those bugs seem to be about about:plugins...
I assume you are mean bug 58291 and bug 83794.  While it is not obvious how they
relate to this bug, after looking a the comments on them, it seems that bug
58291 addresses all the netscape links in plugins, and according to a comment on
that bug, if the null plugin is removed(bug 83794) the links will go away.
That's how those bugs relate to this one.

While I understand how fixing bug 83794 will lead to the fixing of this bug, I
don't see why this bug can't, theoretically, be fixed without fixing bug 83794.
 Let me know if I missed something.

Comment 5

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

*** Bug 267501 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Worcester12345]

This comment is from the one which was "duped" to this bug.


(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
> Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
> > Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
> Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
> > 
> > On the about:plugins page, it says "Find more information about browser plug-ins
> > at Netscape.com.".  This should be changed as information on this page is
> > majorly outdated and generally referes to Netscapes browser, not Firefox.
> > 
> > It lists acrobat's newest version as 5.0, shockware as 8.5 and real player as
> > 8.0,  which are just a few examples.  This should be changed before 1.0 goes out
> > the door.
> 
> 
> Make that "before 1.1 goes out the door".

Comment 7

[Pavel Cvrcek [:JasnaPaka]]

Site on the Netscape web doesn't exist. Visitors are redirected to
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/.

Comment 8

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> Site on the Netscape web doesn't exist. Visitors are redirected to
> http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/.

Shall we just nuke the link (since the url is broken anyway)?

Comment 9

[Robert Kaiser]

We should link to https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/ instead, actually.

Comment 10

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Attachment: Change url to "https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/" and label to "mozilla.org"

This will change the url and the label. I changed the label to mozilla.org,
thought first of having "Mozilla Update". Thoughts?

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Attachment: Correct version

Sorry, forgot one file... sigh.

Comment 12

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Comment on attachment 185468 [details] [diff] [review]
Correct version

Neil, can you do the  r+rs on xpfe/toolkit?

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Attachment: remove plug-in stuff from the /communicator file as well (Checked in)

"<KaiRo> stefan_h|away: whoever moved plugins from communicator to global
forgot to remove the plugins strings from communicator's region.properties"

Sorry for all the spam, but as KaiRo pointed out, the plug-in stuff should be
removed from the /communicator file...

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

Comment on attachment 185471 [details] [diff] [review]
remove plug-in stuff from the /communicator file as well (Checked in)

Looks good to me. I'd r= the xpfe parts, but I'll leave the whole patch up to
Neil, as he can r+sr them and even r= the toolkit version (toolkit doesn't need
sr here)

Comment 15

[[e-mail]]

How about http://plugins.netscape.com/ ?

Comment 16

[Robert Kaiser]

(In reply to comment #15)
> How about http://plugins.netscape.com/ ?

If we've got a mozilla.org URL, I think we should rather link to that than to a
Netscape/AOL one.

Comment 17

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

(In reply to comment #15)
> How about http://plugins.netscape.com/ ?

The download links at http://plugins.netscape.com/ redirects to
http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ ... So, I don't think it's a good alternative.

Comment 18

[Ian Neal]

Comment on attachment 185471 [details] [diff] [review]
remove plug-in stuff from the /communicator file as well (Checked in)

Checking in toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global-region/region.properties;
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2
xpfe/communicator/resources/locale/en-US/region.properties;
new revision: 1.8; previous revision: 1.7
xpfe/global/resources/locale/en-US/region.properties;
new revision: 1.14; previous revision: 1.13
done

Comment 19

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > How about http://plugins.netscape.com/ ?
> 
> The download links at http://plugins.netscape.com/ redirects to
> http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/ ... So, I don't think it's a good alternative.

What was the final resolution on this one? 

Comment 20

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

> What was the final resolution on this one? 

https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/ (see attachment #185471 [details] [diff] [review])