106634 - Plugins no longer work!

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011022

Massive Regression!?

The plugings, which used to work great, seem to have stopped working in recent
nighlies (~ 2001-10-21). This is particularly annoying because the Opera plugin
for GetRight HACK doesn't work anymore either :(

See attached screenshot for a list of my plugins:

Comment 1

[Ben Ruppel]

Confirming.  I suggest putting regression in the summary.  Man, these recent
builds suck.

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

Hm...works with my debug trunk build....I'll pull a Win32 nightly trunk build as
soon as I know the blockers for today.

Comment 3

[Stefan Seifert]

At least flash and java plugins do work on my 2001102503 Win98, but I agree,
recent builds do suck!

Comment 4

[shrirang khanzode]

cc: tracy. Will chek this as soon I get back in the groove.

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

peter lairo..what plugins do not work for you..please list a few..thanks. or pls 
attach your screenshot..thx

Comment 6

[Alex Vincent [:WeirdAl]]

Marking NEW to get it on radar.

Comment 7

[Peter Lubczynski]

hm...can you delete your components.reg file and see if that makes plugins work?
Please test before and after you delete and note what plugin and version you
tried on which Mozilla buildID.

Comment 8

[Peter Lairo]

WFM now on build 2001-11-12, winNT with plugins for:

- GetRight (opera hack)
- Java
- QuickTime 5
- ShockWaveFlash

All plugins were fist installed to Netscape 4.x and then manually copied to
Mozilla (wha a pain in the A$$). There must be a better way. Isn't this an
important evangelism issue?

I'll attach the plugin files I used. Maybe mozilla.org should ask the respective
companies if mozilla.org can put them on an FTP server so us tester/users can
have better access to plugings.

Comment 9

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Plugin for GetRight (Opera hack)

Comment 10

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Plugin for Java

Comment 11

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Plugin for QuickTime 5

Comment 12

[Peter Lairo]

Attachment: Plugin for ShockWaveFlash

Comment 13

[Peter Lairo]

Now I cannot download my own attachments. All I get when I click on the
appachments above is a Save As dialogue with "attachment.cgi" as the suggested
filename :(

Comment 14

[av (gone)]

That's allright. Just rename it to whatever it should be before clicking on Save 
button.

Comment 15

[Peter Lairo]

[OT]
Andrei, thanks for the workaround on the missnamed downloads. I disagree that it
is "allright" though. Is this a bug? Where does the problem lie?
- with Bugzilla?
- with Mozilla?
- with my profile?

Has a bug been filed? (bug#?)
[/OT]

Comment 16

[av (gone)]

I think you should specify right mime type when you create attachments. This for
sure works for zip files: when you click on .zip attachment with the appropriate
mime type specified it will offer you to open it with winzip. The real bug could
be that it does not keep the original file name.

Anyway, if a bug, it should be filed against Bugzilla, I guess.

Comment 17

[Peter Lairo]

I don't understand mime types. "ZIP" should be part of the drop down choices. If
you tell me the mime type, I'll edit the attachments.

What a silly barrier to uploading files :(

Comment 18

[timeless]

The problem you're carping about is trivial and uninteresting. however it
represents a few bugs.
1. mozilla doesn't really support suggested filenames
2. bugzilla doesn't offer a way to specify them
3. that has absolutely nothing to do w/ whatever you were complaining about here
so it should have been left out of the bug.
1 and 2 are reported, i think your tendency for 3 is too but we can't fix that one.

Afaik you never attached a screenshot, am i correct? you also never pasted the
output from about:plugins or somehow indicated how you knew that plugins didn't
work.

Oh, and you don't have my sympathy, this comment was written using QNX Mozilla
which has no plugin support, it's a clear bug that has a patch but has received
no attention from the plugin team.

Comment 19

[Peter Lairo]

WFM with recent builds. Must have been fixed, or I was doing something wrong -
not sure which.

[OT]
timeless, your last comments were rude and arrogant. To use words such as
"carping", "trivial", "uninteresting" and "complaining" to describe my comments
is inappropriate and unacceptable. I also never asked for your sympathy. You
obviously have issues and in my oppinion, NO amount of technical expertise
justifies your rudeness. Got it?

BTW, I had already previously stated that it WFM (2001-11-13 05:06), so there
was no longer a need to post about:plugins. You #§$%#.

PS, by posting your rude comments in this bug, you forced me to respond here as
well. I apologize to all others for the interruption. And now back to your
regularly scheduled program...
[/OT]

Comment 20

[shrirang khanzode]

resolving based on reporter's comment.

Comment 21

[shrirang khanzode]

v