1310296 - Similar plug-ins ( different version numbers ) extremely difficult to sort and make the plug in manager ... manage

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[killmofasta]

Attachment: Stupid Firefox.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20160905130425

Steps to reproduce:

Checked and verified security issues with plugins. Installed updated Flash Player.
Old flash player listed. Disabled old flash player, enabled new Flash player.

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Firefox randomly either disables or enables both, without discrimination. 

I will not know if this bug will be resolved, since now Firefox must be removed from all my affected systems. ( over 200 ) 


Actual results:

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Firefox randomly either disables or enables both, without discrimination. 


Expected results:

It clearly should have provided any option for the less than stellar installer for Flash, to delete the old version, or to manage it like *ANY* other plug in manager, to be able to "manage" the plug-ins. Manage = verb 1. be in charge of (a company, establishment, or undertaking); administer; run.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is a known issue, but given the trajectory of plugins we're not going to dedicate the engineering time to fix it.