403940 - Yellow 'Plugin Missing' Banner

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Rob]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

A yellow banner appears at the top of the screen every time a plugin is not present for the page visited.  There is no way to turn off this banner.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Visit any page requiring a plugin which is not installed
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Expected Results:  
The software should display a little icon in the corner like with unwated pop-ups (after turning off that equally intrusive and annoying banner)

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Bug 261655 provided a pref that allows you to completely disable it. Bug 268936 is about disabling it for specific plugins. I don't think it's likely that we'll implement a status bar icon like the popup blocked case (in fact I think it's more likely we'll remove the status bar icon notification system entirely). Would you be satisfied if this bug were marked as a duplicate of either of the bugs I mentioned?

Comment 2

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Calling this WFM based on last comments (or lack thereof).