131851 - appreg plugin list easily gets out of sync with reality

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 109739

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jim Gettys]

Say you want plugins for many datatypes on Linux... (it is possible
this bug is generic, but I can reproduce it on linux...).

You go download plugger (http://fredrik.hubbe.net/plugger).

You then configure the helper apps you want to use as plugins.

Then you change your mind.

Squirrelled away in the .mozilla/appreg file is stale information that
the plugin supports the previous data types.

So you try to delete a mimetype in plugger, but nothing happens (as shown by
the help->plugins list) in mozilla.

Why doesn't mozilla just believe its plugins, rather than storing
this copy of the data that can get out of sync?

It took me hours to figure out what was happening, along with the hint
of this bug documented in the plugger(7) man page for Netscape, so
this one has been around a *LONG* time.

Ugh...

The "fix" is to remove your appreg file!

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

resolving as dup of bug 109739.
the problem is that appreg increments forever - nothing ever gets deleted there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109739 ***

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"