1580282 - Remove checks for plugins that are part of extensions and the app distribution dir provider

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, task)

Description

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Extensions can't ship plugins anymore, and flash (the only plugin we support) doesn't install in the app dir, so there's no point supporting any of this infrastructure.

I won't change pluginreg because that's more work than it's worth (ie we'll now write a useless byte for "is this plugin associated with an extension", which won't be a regression). We'll soon (in bug 1545123) stop needing to read this file for flash info anyway, at which point I may have to rev the pluginreg version anyway (though I might still try to avoid it).

While we're here, it seems XRE_EXTENSIONS_DIR_LIST will become unused once we excise this particular bit of plugin code, so we can ditch that, too.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Attachment: Bug 1580282 - Remove checks for plugins that are part of extensions and support for loading plugins from the app and profile dir, r?mconley!,mixedpuppy!

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/9b4e603eb86a
Remove checks for plugins that are part of extensions and support for loading plugins from the app and profile dir, r=mconley,mixedpuppy

Comment 3

[Noemi Erli[:noemi_erli]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/9b4e603eb86a