143372 - about:plugins shows a blank page

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[av (gone)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020509

1. launch a full-page plugin, I tried Flash
2. go to menu Help/About Plugins
3. see the blank page

Expected: about:plugins page.

Reload works fine. JavaScript console shows the following error messages:

Error: document has no properties
Source File: jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/plugins.html
Line: 81

Error: window._content.document has no properties
Source File: chrome://global/content/charsetOverlay.js
Line: 210
Peter suspects possible relation to bugscape 15425I assigned to Plugins for now,
but this is likely XPApps.

Comment 1

[av (gone)]

Attachment: Shockvawe file for testing purposes

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

Attachment: Shockwave file for testing purposes

misspelles 'wave' last time, important for mime type recognition.

Comment 3

[rubydoo123]

strange, I get the blank page but I do not get any error messages. Giving this
back to you AV.

Comment 4

[serge (gone)]

No, it does not look like related to bugscape 15425
no matter what i set in
user_pref("dom.disable_open_during_load", true/false)
on first "about:plugins" I always got an empty page and:
************************************************************
* Call to xpconnect wrapped JSObject produced this error:  *
[Exception... "'[JavaScript Error: "window._content.document has no properties"
{file: "chrome://global/content/charsetOverlay.js" line: 210}]' when calling met
hod: [nsIDOMEventListener::handleEvent]"  nsresult: "0x80570021 (NS_ERROR_XPC_JA
VASCRIPT_ERROR_WITH_DETAILS)"  location: "<unknown>"  data: yes]
************************************************************
Document about:plugins loaded successfully

Comment 5

[serge (gone)]

"about:config" behaves in the sane way, I see an empty page & the same js error

Comment 6

[Dan Dickerman]

Possibly a somewhat less platform-specific problem, as I see the same behavior
for about:plugins on Mac OS X (Mozilla 1.0), but that page shows fine on HP-UX
and Linux.  Vanilla install shows as blank for about:plugins (not even the null
plugin), though plugins do work (Flash, java, etc) correctly when installed. 
"about:" shows the normal revision and Mozilla splash page on all platforms I've
used.

Comment 7

[rubydoo123]

The plug-ins triage team (av, beppe, peterl, serge and shrir) have reviewed this
issue and have made the following determination:

Tested on win2K on winXP using a current build and Flash6, this now works fine.
There is a related issue with PDF files, see bug 146143 

Comment 8

[shrirang khanzode]

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