106413 - inconsistency in the use of the words "plug-in" and "plugin"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56229

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

The help menu in Mozilla talks about "Plug-ins" and so do bugzilla, but the
status text talks about "Starting Plugin for type".

Which is the correct form:
"plugin" or "plug-in"

I dont care, just as long as we consistent

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

plug-in is linguistically correct

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

Attachment: patch with correct wording. Also, back to old good 'Default Plug-in"

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

could you also change http://www.netscape.com into http://netscape.com
looks much better

Comment 4

[av (gone)]

Why? 

Well, I think we should add somebody from the Netcenter to advise on this.

Arun, do you know who might be the right person? Or maybe you just know the 
answer.

Comment 5

[Alex Bishop]

Sending someone to http://www.netscape.com/ and expecting them to find the
plug-in stuff in amongst all the portal content is cruel. Point them towards
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/ so they at least have a fighting chance.

Comment 6

[Arun Ranganathan]

NetCenter is interesting to this discussion only from the Plugin Finder Service
point of view.  I am cc'ing greggl because he's the main person behind this. 
Thanks for bringing this issue to our attention Henrik!

Comment 7

[Henrik Gemal]

so it should be http://netscape.com/plugins/
the "www" is just unnessesary information. It takes long to type and say. And
there's no need for it.

Comment 8

[av (gone)]

Attachment: second version -- review anyone?

Comment 9

[Alex Bishop]

Netscape's URLs have been in the form http://home.netscape.com/ for as long as
it's been called Netscape. So I think it should be
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/ but I always was a traditionalist.

Comment 10

[Gregg Landskov (gone)]

yes, using "home" is the most correct.  Using
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/index.html is the most official.  I would
prefer to use "home".

Also, on the about:plugins page, there is a link to "Netscape Netcenter".  This
is BAD.  Netcenter has been retired for a long time.  This needs to be changed
to "Netscape.com"

Comment 11

[Henrik Gemal]

could we at least get rid of the "index.html" so the URL just is:
http://home.netscape.com/plugins/

Comment 12

[Gregg Landskov (gone)]

sure, having "index.html" is not necessary.

Comment 13

[Alex Bishop]

> Also, on the about:plugins page, there is a link to "Netscape Netcenter".  This
> is BAD.  Netcenter has been retired for a long time.  This needs to be changed
> to "Netscape.com"

That would be bug 92457. Also related is bug 80676.

Comment 14

[av (gone)]

Attachment: third version -- http://home.netscape.com/plugins

Comment 15

[Alex Bishop]

No trailing slash?

Comment 16

[av (gone)]

Attachment: Hm... fourth version -- http://home.netscape.com/plugins/

Comment 17

[Henrik Gemal]

are all the patched now obsolete?

Comment 18

[timeless]

personally i'd prefer not to include the trailing slash.

if at some later point in time netscape.com wanted to make the file name plugins
instead of a directory named plugins containing an index file, they could do so
if we don't include the /, if we do, we make it harder on them. [ref:
http://www.mozilla.org/start wrt the zope mozilla.org rewrite]

Comment 19

[rubydoo123]

The plug-ins triage team (av, beppe, peterl, serge and shrir) have reviewed this
issue and have made the following determination:

The status message text is no longer used, so that issue is resolved
The default plug-in dialog is being removed, see bug 56229

Both issues discussed in this bug are either 1. fixed, or 2. addressed in
another bug. Marking as a dup of the other bug

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56229 ***

Comment 20

[shrirang khanzode]

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