1320780 - Google plugins appear in browser fingerprinting test after plugin removal

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[irmas25]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20161115075801

Steps to reproduce:

Installed Google Hangout plugin (and google talk). Authorized it to run on my PC.

Then, I removed the plugins.

When performing browser test (test provided by EFF, https://panopticlick.eff.org/), the test returns that the plugin is still installed: 

Plugin 0: Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer; Version: 5.41.3.0; libnpo1d.so; (Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer; application/o1d; o1d). Plugin 1: Google Talk Plugin; Version: 5.41.3.0; libnpgoogletalk.so; (Google Talk Plugin; application/googletalk; googletalk). 

I tried removing pluginreg.dat and restarting firefox, but it didn't work.


Actual results:

When performing browser test (test provided by EFF, https://panopticlick.eff.org/), the test returns that the plugin is still installed: 

Plugin 0: Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer; Version: 5.41.3.0; libnpo1d.so; (Google Talk Plugin Video Renderer; application/o1d; o1d). Plugin 1: Google Talk Plugin; Version: 5.41.3.0; libnpgoogletalk.so; (Google Talk Plugin; application/googletalk; googletalk). 


Expected results:

Google plugins shouldn't appear

Comment 1

[irmas25]

The automatic user agent is wrong : I am using Firefox 50 and Archlinux (I was using Firefox when I discovered the issue).