241780 - Full-page plugins don't register correctly

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Steven Sivek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040424
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040424

I wrote a full-page plugin to deal with a modification to HTML.  When I launch
Mozilla and go to such a modified page, the browser produces the "Mozilla does
not know how to handle this file type" dialog and does not call any of the
plugin methods.  The browser notices the plugin, however, when I load
about:plugins or a page which embeds this type, and after that it knows how to
handle the full-page version.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load Mozilla, with my plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins.
2. Go to a page of the appropriate MIME type.
3. Load about:plugins.
4. Return to the page in step 2.
Actual Results:  
After step 2, I got the dialog mentioned above; after step 4, however, the
plugin was called as expected.

Expected Results:  
The plugin should have been called immediately after step 2.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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