1424874 - Additional Shockwave Flash information disappears when hitting the "Back" button instead of displaying the about:addons - Plugins list

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect, P5)

Description

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: plugin details.png

[Affected versions]:
- latest Nightly 59.0a1 2017-12-11

[Affected platforms]:
- Win 10 64-bit
- Mac OS X 10.12
- Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit

[Steps to reproduce]:
1. Open about:addons.
2. Click "Plugins".
3. Click Shockwave Flash's "Options"/"Preferences" button or "More" link - Details about the add-on are shown
4. Press browser's Back button

[Expected result]:
- The list of the installed plugins is displayed

[Actual result]:
- Fewer details about Shockwave Flash plugin are displayed. Back button must be selected twice to return to about:addons - Plugins list

[Regression range]:
Found commit message:
Bug 1414406: Remove the inline options feature for add-ons. r=aswan

[Notes]:
- This is not reproducible for the pre-installed plugins OpenH264 Video Codec and Widevine Content Decryption Module.

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

Thanks its a valid bug, but I don't think its worth fixing. Someday soon, I hope, this will be removed. If not we'll be rewriting this interface to be simpler.