315745 - Pop-up requires more plug-ins when no more plug-ins available

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[elena soltau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

When attempting to play music, the popup box appears.  After all plug-ins have been installed, the site still requires a plug-in.  All of the components to the window do not appear.  For example, list of previous music played along with the current information of the song that is being played

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to the above site (must be a member)
2.click on "Listen" on the top right of the page

Actual Results:  
Pop up will appear.  At the top of the box is the notification that there are plug -ins needed.



Expected Results:  
Everything should play as normal.  All components should be available to the listener.  There should also be a list of previous songs and the name of the current song playing.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Maybe related to bug 275273?

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bug 836415 has now removed the Plugin Finder Service (PFS) from Firefox. As a result, I'm closing all the remaining PFS bugs.

If you're getting this bugmail for an ancient PFS bug, the basic summary of the world today is:

* NPAPI plugins are a dying technology
* PFS was already restricted to assisting with only the 4 most common plugins
* Sites commonly provide their own UI for install a required plugin
* Mozilla is generally focusing on  improving the web platform so that proprietary plugins are not required.

(Note that "plugins" are a completely separate from "browser extensions", such at those found on addons.mozilla.org. The latter are not going anywhere, and are not impacted by the removal of PFS.)