186686 - can't suppress pop-up to download an uninstalled plug-in

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 61103

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Paul Rubin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

I'm running Mozilla without the Flash plug-in installed.  That's because I don't
WANT the Flash plug-in installed.  Flash intros are a boring waste of time and I
hate Flash and I don't want to run any closed-source plug-ins, ok?

But whenever I visit a site with Flash on it, I get a pop-up saying "you don't
have flash installed, click OK to download Flash" and I have to hit Cancel.  I'd
really really like a way to suppress that pop-up.  Either something in
Preferences, or a "remember this decision" check-box in the download dialog, or
both.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit any page with Flash on it.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
I get a dialog asking if I want to download Flash, and I have to click Cancel
to not download it.

Expected Results:  
Give me a way to permanently indicate to the browser that I don't want to
install the Flash plug-in and it should stop asking me.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61103 ***