234369 - Firefox calls itself Navigator when installing plug-ins

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When installing new plug-ins, Firefox refers to itself as Navigator.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.With no plug-ins installed, visit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/asiannetwork.shtml
2.Click "Having problems listening...?" to launch a Real Audio file
3.Read the dialogue box

Actual Results:  
"Navigator can retrieve the plug-in for you..."

Expected Results:  
"Firefox can retrieve the plug-in for you..."

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Confirming.
Changed Hardware and OS to all because this is a text issue.
Set to block bug 214267 - Awkward UI Text Review

Comment 2

[Gordon Shephard]

I can confirm that this is in the 0.9 Release of Firefox.

"Navigator can retrieve the plug-in for you"

Time for someone to run a egrep -i for 'Navigator' through the source?

Comment 3

[Tim Meader]

Attachment: Patch to change "Navigator" to "Firefox"

Well, since lxr doesn't allow case sensitive searching, my plan to search and
replace all instances of "Communicator" and "Navigator" doesn't seem like it's
going to happen any time soon. In the meantime, here's the patch to fix the
above problem (as far as I can tell).

Comment 4

[Tim Meader]

Comment on attachment 151070 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to change "Navigator" to "Firefox"

Setting to blake for review.

Comment 5

[Tim Meader]

Amazingly, after I ended up just doing a recurrsive egrep on my Firefox tree for
"Communicator", "Navigator", and "Netscape" (and, yes, after scanning through
ALL the results)... this bug seemed to be the only instances I could find where
any of those terms might actually appear to the user.

Impressive :)

Comment 6

[Tim Meader]

Comment on attachment 151070 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to change "Navigator" to "Firefox"

Setting to mconnor for review.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Comment on attachment 151070 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch to change "Navigator" to "Firefox"

this would break wording for Suite (this is not a Firefox-only file).

These strings should be localizable, then we can use brandShortName
appropriately.

Comment 8

[Tim Meader]

I see, I was under the impression that this patch was wanted only for the AVIARY
(re - 0.9 and 1.0 branch), hence patching these files in the branch wouldn't
break the trunk version. However, I must point out that it's already "broken"
being called Navigator in the trunk too ;)  I'll see what I can do about a real
patch though.

Comment 9

[Tim Powell]

Beyond the Navigator name, most of the rest of the plug-in dialog is invalid for
Firefox.

The plug-in dialog says:
Information on this page requires a plug-in for:
(mime/type)

Navigator can retrieve the plug-in for you from:
(url)

To retrieve the plug-in now, click the Get the Plug-in button and then select
the plug-in you need from the page that appears. If you have trouble installing
the plug-in, make sure that Java and JavaScript are enabled in Advanced
preferences, and that software installation is enabled (in the Software
Installation category under Advanced).

Specific problems:
* Java is definitely not required for software installation and is in fact a
possible plug-in. (Java isn't even required for Mozilla--how old is this dialog?)
* Firefox calls them options, not preferences.
* Software Installation isn't a possible category on the Advanced pane. Perhaps
it should be Software Update? "Make sure that web sites are allowed to install
software"

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

Fixed.