177834 - Use icon instead of dialog to indicate missing plugin

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[u32858]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021029

browser plugin pop up alert

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.visit the link http://www.gamespy.com/futureofgaming/engines/
2.with no macromedia plugin i get 
Default Plugin
This page contains infomation of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can
only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.
Click OK to download the plugin


Sometimes the advert is not a plugin but a jpg, so please refresh if that is the
case.
3.

Actual Results:  
Default Plugin
This page contains infomation of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can
only be viewed with the appropriate Plug-in.
Click OK to download the plugin

Expected Results:  
Should just have the icon to say plugin not found, if i want it i can just click
on that icon

submitted in UTF-8

Comment 1

[rubydoo123]

handing over to anthony

Comment 2

[Jess Thrysoee]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021220

The dialog decision is not remembered! If I click "Cancel" and then reload a
page (www.linuxtoday.com) I get the same popup again. This decision should at
least be remembered throughout the current session.

Comment 3

[Alexander Opitz]

Remove the libnullplugin.so files from your mozilla/plugin directory. Then never
a popup ask you for downloading the missing plug in.

If this is, what you want, then close this bug as worksforme.

Comment 4

[u32858]

[e-mail],

Thank you for your sugestion.  However, what you describe is a workaround, not a
fix.  The problem should not exist.

JG

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Is the dialog Linux-specific?  I'm using WinXP and can't remember if I've ever
seen the dialog.  I usually just see the in-page "puzzle" icon where the plugin
should be.

Jess Thrysoee: "The dialog decision is not remembered!" is bug 175206.

Comment 6

[u32858]

Attachment: No plugin screen shot, X windows/Linux

Hi,

if you go to http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/expose/
click on one of the popup links with a quicktime video, you will always see
this plugin error.  It is really anoying.. so if there could be a way to turn
it off, that would be great!

Kind regards

JG