255704 - would like an easy way to get the URL of content that cannot be displayed because there is no plugin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115396

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Martin Lester]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Debian/1.7.2-2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Debian/1.7.2-2

If I do not have the relevant plugin installed to view some EMBEDded content,
such as a video clip, there should be an easy way to obtain the URL of the
content (i.e. the src attribute) so I can view it with some external player.  At
present, I usually end up looking through the source, which is tiresome.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Visit some page with an embedded video clip without a player plugin installed.

Actual Results:  
A window pops up informing me that I cannot view the video because I don't have
the right plugin installed.

Expected Results:  
The window that tells me I don't have the right plug-in installed should show
the URL of the embedded video.  Alternatively, and perhaps more usefully, when I
right-click on the cyan jigsaw piece that shows where the video ought to be,
there should be a pop-up menu with the option to copy the src of the video.  The
current behaviour is for the same window to pop up again.

Comment 1

[Logan Ingalls]

Better "default plugin" behavior would be nice (I hate the popup, why isn't the
question "inline" if there's room?), I agree.  For the meantime, try the
bookmarklet I created for you: http://plutor.org/blog/2004/08/16/10.26.56/

Comment 2

[Logan Ingalls]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115396 ***