252140 - Plug in Discovery Bug - Windows XP

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Creating this as a tracking bug to track our progress after a clean install of
Windows XP.

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Installed IE Version 6.0.2800.1106xpsp20304221633
Update Versions: SP1; Q823353; Q832894; Q831167

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Installed IE Version 6.0.2800.1106xpsp20304221633
Update Versions: SP1; Q823353; Q832894; Q831167

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Flash Player 5 - installed

swflash.ocx file is located in the following Windows directory:
windows\system32\Macromed\Flash

The registry location is as follows:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}\1.0\0\win32

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

The following plugins are not installed in this version of IE:

Shockwave
Quicktime
Adobe
Java

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Flash discovery data dump (possibly of value):

Browser plugins
    * ActicveX through registry key
          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\CLSID
          HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{<CLSID of flash.ocx>}\InprocServer32
    * Netscape through registry and folder access
          HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Mozilla\
          HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Netscape\Netscape Navigator\
          HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Opera Software\
          <Opera folder>\Opera6.ini
          <Opera folder>\OperaDef6.ini
Standalone player
    through its registry keys:
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.swf
    HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\Shell\open\command
Flash IDEs
    and their locations (<Flash base folder>) via registry keys
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Flash\<X>\Installation\InstallPath
Integrated players
    from your profile folder and your Flash installation
    * "Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Macromedia\Flash
xx\authplay.dll"
    * "<Flash base folder>\First Run\authplay.dll"
Publish players
    * "<Flash base folder>\Players"
    * "<Flash base folder>\Players\Debug"
    * "<Flash base folder>\Players\Release"

Comment 6

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Adobe Registry search for nppdf32.dll returns the following info:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18\Components\C37BC61A283EBF9

F:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\Browser\nppdf32.dll
68AB67CA7DA7330167640A0000000010

Also as a side note when Adobe was installing I noticed it passed through a
recomposer which could add some overhead to the installation. While this was
noted on XP I did not see this when installing Adobe on Win 2K.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Shockwave info from regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Shockwave 10\location\common
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Shockwave 10\location\coreplayer
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Macromedia\Shockwave 10\location\coreplayerxtras

Comment 8

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Shockwave: Additional info that might be helpful from regedit:

HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-6820003330-746137067-725345543-1003\Software\Macromedia\Shockwave
10\InstallType

HKEY_USERS also has a location directory similar to HKEY_CURRENT_USER noted in
the comment above.

Comment 9

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Flash Player

On a system without mozilla or firefox installed, there is no .xpt file found
anywhere in the Windows system when a search is initiated. After installing
Mozilla/Firefox browsers and then installing flash, the flashplayer.xpt file
shows up in the Components directory of both browsers. 

Comment 10

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Quicktime

After installing Quicktime and then uninstalling (and making sure to check the 
uninstall everything option, Quicktime still leaves a .xpt file in the Program 
Files directory - nsiqtscriptableplugin.xpt resides in the 
F:\ProgramFiles\Quicktime|Plugins directory. May not be useful information but 
it is interesting that this file remains after a full uninstall.

Comment 11

[mariaelaporte]

Attachment: Bug

Comment 12

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

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