843070 - Plugins manager in add-ons manager doesn't recognize changes to plugin list

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 554780

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[blizzard]

Attachment: screenshot of extensions manager / plugin pane

I took updates from Apple that included a new Java plugin.  Because Java is evil and not to be trusted I loaded the add-ons pane for plugins after it updated and noticed that Java wasn't listed at all.  I thought that was odd so I loaded about:plugins and noticed that it is listed there.  It's also listed if I go to the plugin update tool, which means it's exposed to content.

Comment 1

[blizzard]

Attachment: screenshot of about:plugins

Comment 2

[blizzard]

Attachment: screenshot of plugin update page

Comment 3

[blizzard]

Note that I didn't restart Firefox after doing the Java update underneath it.  It's very possible that doing about:plugins refreshed the list of plugins, but the extension manager doesn't use the same method.

Comment 4

[blizzard]

Possibly related to bug #398313?

Comment 5

[blizzard]

Note that after a restart the Java plugin shows up in the extensions/add-on manager/plugin pane.  So this looks like it's just a sync issue.

Comment 6

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

With it working properly after restart, this is bug 554780, which is fixed in Fx21.