172181 - Ability to disable download plug-in prompt on a type by type basis

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[David Dorward]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020914
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020914

When visiting a page containing content that requires a plugin to be accessed
(e.g. Flash, midi files, Java) the browser prompts the user to install the
plugin. The options are OK and Cancel. The user might not want to install the
plugin (e.g. midi files are usually just irritating) but the prompt appears with
each visit to a page that uses the content type that demands the plugin.

To deal with this I suggest a third option be added to the prompt - "Never
install a plugin for this content type". A pane in preferences should allow
blocked content types to be unblocked.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit page containing content that requires a plugin which is not installed
2. Click "Cancel" to the install plugin prompt
3. Visit another page containing similar content
4. Goto 2


Actual Results:  
Repeated prompts to install the plugin

Expected Results:  
Offered me the choice to never see the prompt for that content type again unless
I explicitly removed the block in preferences.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"