132202 - document hidden plugin prefs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Documentation Graveyard :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Peter Lubczynski]

We've got a few hidden plugin prefs that it'd be nice to document.

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

Attachment: default values patch

This patch does a little documenting by adding the default values for these
"hidden" prefs to win/mac/all.js. Are there also some UNIX prefs?

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

--->documentation

Comment 3

[rudman]

-->chris wozniak.

Chris, I assume you want to doc these. I assume that Ian might want to handle
these as well---I'll leave it to you two to decide where the prefs go.

Comment 4

[av (gone)]

We have more prefs which we use in the plugin code, should not they also be
documented? The following four are defaulted to 'false' in the code, so not
setting them will mean just that:

"plugin.override_internal_types" -- this allows to allow plug-ins to handle mime
 type normally handled by browser itself like QuickTime and PNG images

"plugin.allow_alien_star_handler" -- this allows plug-ins to take over handling
"*" type, normally we do it with our default plug-in which is critical for the
plug-in finder service

"plugin.expose_full_path" -- allows to show full plug-in paths in the
about:plugins page, normally we don't do that due to security considerations

"plugin.skip_real_player_hack" -- Peter, would you explain this one?

We also look for some important plug-ins elsewhere, not only in the plugins
folder, this can be switched off by prefs:

"plugin.scan.SunJRE"
"plugin.scan.Acrobat"
"plugin.scan.Quicktime"
"plugin.scan.WindowsMediaPlayer"
"plugin.scan.4xPluginFolder"

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

Stephen, I'm CC'ing you because we have many prefs documented and here are some
more.

Comment 6

[Peter Lubczynski]

Important for plugin developers on Windows is "plugin.dont_try_safe_call" which
turns off exception handling (ie. '... your plugin has performed an illegal
operation and you should restart Navigator').

"plugin.skip_real_player_hack" prevents looking for Real in the components
folder, the default install location for Real 8 on Netscape

Comment 7

[timeless]

Comment on attachment 75107 [details] [diff] [review]
default values patch

> +// When there is no pluign registered for the "*" mime type, (i.e. no default
fix the spelling

Comment 8

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

This bug has been buried in the graveyard and has not been updated in over 5 years. It is probably safe to assume that it will never be fixed, so resolving as WONTFIX.

[Mass-change filter: graveyard-wontfix-2014-09-24]