164980 - Gecko should auto-scan for the Real One plugin in its installed location

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 159445

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

Description

[Jan M]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020827

RealOne Version 2 now saves netscape plugins locally in
".../Real/Realplayer/Netscape 6"
this gives mozilla the option to recognize it at startup

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Realone Version Beta
2.install mozilla (needs to be real "clean" install )
3.start mozilla and type or select about:plugins

Actual Results:  
as you can see, no realone plugin is recognized at all

Expected Results:  
recogize the plugins (it does with sun java,quicktime and wmp as i can see)

this can be workedaround easily, but coping files to another directory is not
what I call "user friendly"

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

Arun? Shouldn't they be copying the files to a Netscape dir, or is this part of
the "if nscp is not found" issue?

Comment 2

[Jan M]

i do not know this issue, but as far as i understand it: yes it is.
however Moz finds java quicktime an WMP on it's own, so why not Realone
this was not possible before because NS plugins were not stored on your
harddrive if NSCP not found, but know it is - in the Real directory in windows
programs directory. Exact path is given above.

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

I'll take this, -->peterl

This will be solved with the plug-in manager or we can come up with a fix
similar to the scans for Java/QT/WMP/Acrobat. Leaving open for now for a short
term fix.

Comment 4

[rubydoo123]

Peter: if you can get this into the same search mechanism as the other plug-ins,
then shoot for that in the near term and we will do a more generalized
resolution for the plug-in manager work.

Comment 5

[Arun Ranganathan]

Firstly, [e-mail] -- excellent bug!  This is also a bit of a coincidence
since this is what we discussed today in the installer meeting.

Secondly -- as [e-mail] says, the new RealOne Player (available from:
http://www.real.com -- click "Free RealOne Player" which is in small print in
the top right hand corner; do NOT click "Free 14 day trial") now leaves both DLL
and XPT in a special directory.  beppe, they are doing things *perfectly*
exactly like we told them to in our document --
http://mozilla.org/projects/plugins/first-install-problem.html :-)

Thirdly, this bug should be connected to
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159445 .  If you are running
Windows, run Regedt32 or Regedit.  Look under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MozillaPlugins\ and you'll see a series of keys
created by RealNetworks -- hooray, they are PLIDs.  [e-mail] , one of
these keys gives us:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@real.com/nppl3260;version=6.0.10.793
If you look at the String values in this key, you'll see:

Path = C:\Program Files\Real\RealOne Player\Netscape6\nppl3260.dll
XPTPath = C:\Program Files\Real\RealOne Player\Netscape6\nppl3260.xpt

Now, using this registry key, we can locate this directory, and *add it to our
list of directories scanned.*  But this is actually what bug 159445 is talking
about, so maybe this bug should be a duplicate of that one.  peterl?

Hooray for RealNetworks for doing this for us :-)

Comment 6

[Jan M]

i don't think this ain't a duplicate of bug 159445 at all.
and: there are plans for a plug-in manager?
that was something else i wanted to suggest (via bugzilla?) but surely i won't
have searched before an found something...
*sorry for the spam if you feel this is spam*

Comment 7

[Jan M]

this one seems to be done since a couple of weeks.
WFM with 2002092708

Comment 8

[Peter Lubczynski]

This is PLID.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159445 ***