229750 - MFCEmbed - About:plugins broken

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect)

Description

[amutch]

About:plugins doesn't work in MFCEmbed built using the 12/30/2003 nighty source 
[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20031230]. 

When you enter about:plugins in the URL bar, a blank screen appears. It should 
display a list of plugins detected and installed on the computer. 

I found that if I edited the contents.rdf file packaged in embed.jar 
under "content\communicator", which is the same directory where plugins.html is 
located, with the following change:

chrome:skinVersion="1.5"

to 

chrome:skinVersion="1.7"

and then repackaged the JAR and started MFCEmbed, entering about:plugins 
properly displayed the plugins installed. However, it has the side effect of 
generating an error when trying to view about: that matches the error seen in 
this old bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=179129

Before making that change, about had properly shown the version info. So, 
something isn't right but I don't know enough about how the RDF files work to 
generate a patch for this. Also, is there any connection between this problem 
and this bug:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172680

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Mass marking all MFCEmbed bugs as wontfix, since bug 377410 removed it. If this bug was erroneously included (or say equally applies to winEmbed), please reopen & accept my apologies.

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