821972 - Plugin block request: versions of DivX <= 7.0

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Blocklist Policy Requests, defect)

Description

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Plugin name: DivX
Plugin versions to block: 7.0 and below
Applications, versions, and platforms affected: Mac OS X, Firefox 18 and above
Block severity: (hard/soft)

How does this plugin appear in about:plugins?
    File: 
    Version: 
    Description: 

Homepage and other references and contact info: http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus

Reasons: bug 816445

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Bug 816445 comment #15 claims these are very old versions of the DivX plugin, so I don't have any objections if that's correct.

Do we support the DivX plugin in the plugin check page?

Comment 2

[Alex Keybl [:akeybl]]

Virgil can help test the plugin check page with Divx, but I wouldnt' block on that given the volume of crashes.

Comment 3

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Can someone give me the about:plugins information for this plugin? What I have on my machine is DivX Web Player (DivXBrowserPlugin.plugin), which is only up to version 2.1. Incidentally, this plugin is detected correctly by the plugincheck page.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

Bug 816445 comment #12 says:
This happens with an older DivX browser Plugin. It is still available here:
http://mac.oldapps.com/divx.php?old_divx=1138

I don't have a mac to get the strings, but that's the one we need to be blocking.

Comment 5

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Thank you, Kairo. The installer on that site includes version 1.4 of the same plugin, so I'll stage a block for 1.4 and below.

Comment 6

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

The block is now staged. It should be functional in about an hour:
https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p239

Looping in Laura, in case this has any PR implications.

Comment 7

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

Attachment: DivX block UI

Should the UI refer to add-ons and not plugins?

Comment 8

[Virgil Dicu [:virgil] [QA]]

The rest looks good.
Verified the block in staging on Mac OS 10.6, 10.7, 10.8.
Divx Web player 1.4.1.4 - blocked on 18 beta, 19 Aurora, 20 Nightly, works on 17 beta
Divx Web player 2.2 - working successfully after the ping on all channels.
Also used the following page to test with: http://sharebees.com/5sbceugdi268

Currently the "More information" link leads to nowhere, but I supposed that will change once the block goes live.

Comment 9

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

The UI is correct. I forgot to set the severity, so it appeared as a hardblock instead of a softblock, but that's just a minor issue. I corrected the block on staging, but I think we're good to go to push it live.

Comment 10

[Scoobidiver (away)]

The request was for the plugin, not the extension.
Are you sure blocking the extension will stop crashes?

Comment 11

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

The plugin is what's being blocked. The UI says add-ons, but you can see from the icon that it is clearly a plugin being blocked.

Comment 12

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Pushed to prod: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p240

+SUMO, since they might hear about this.