257148 - Plugin finder often (always?) fails to find Flash

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258955

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ivan Sagalaev]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040826 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040826 Firefox/0.9.1+

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
height="130" width="130"><param name="movie"
value="pie.swf?countValues=59.84,23.63,8.59,3.90,0.77,0.69,0.66,0.44,0.24,1.09&amp;colorValues=A3F19D,FFBA68,E0B8E7,91BEDA,FF7979,D0D0D0,FFF768,9D5CB8,ABEFE7,ffffff">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="quality" value="high">
(Can't select more appropriate component - choosing 'General')

New plugin finder interface in FireFox Aviary build seems not able to find and
install Flash plugin. I've tried it on several pages (this one for example:
http://globalstats.hotlog.ru/) and after clicking 'Install Missing Plugins...'
it ends up in a couple of seconds with a message 'No suitable plugins were found'.

Here follow the code from that page used for embedding Flash (may be it'' help):

<param name="bgcolor" value="#EFEFEF">
<embed menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
src="pie.swf?countValues=59.84,23.63,8.59,3.90,0.77,0.69,0.66,0.44,0.24,1.09&amp;colorValues=A3F19D,FFBA68,E0B8E7,91BEDA,FF7979,D0D0D0,FFF768,9D5CB8,ABEFE7,ffffff"
height="130" width="130"></object>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ivan Sagalaev]

Oops... Looks like I horked my text during editing :-(. Correcting:

The issue:
New plugin finder interface in FireFox Aviary build seems not able to find and
install Flash plugin. I've tried it on several pages (this one for example:
http://globalstats.hotlog.ru/) and after clicking 'Install Missing Plugins...'
it ends up in a couple of seconds with a message 'No suitable plugins were found'.

The URL:
http://globalstats.hotlog.ru/

The code used to embed Flash:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"
height="130" width="130"><param name="movie"
value="pie.swf?countValues=59.84,23.63,8.59,3.90,0.77,0.69,0.66,0.44,0.24,1.09&amp;colorValues=A3F19D,FFBA68,E0B8E7,91BEDA,FF7979,D0D0D0,FFF768,9D5CB8,ABEFE7,ffffff">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#EFEFEF">
<embed menu="false" quality="high" bgcolor="#EFEFEF"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
src="pie.swf?countValues=59.84,23.63,8.59,3.90,0.77,0.69,0.66,0.44,0.24,1.09&amp;colorValues=A3F19D,FFBA68,E0B8E7,91BEDA,FF7979,D0D0D0,FFF768,9D5CB8,ABEFE7,ffffff"
height="130" width="130"></object>

Comment 2

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040828
Firefox/0.9.1+

Comment 3

[Ivan Sagalaev]

Strange... I've downloaded today a new build from 0.9 branch (Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040829 Firefox/0.9.1+) and
it doesn't have this new plugin search bar and wizard at all... Though I've
failed to find a checkin in Bonsai puling out this code.

Comment 4

[Ivan Sagalaev]

Ah... Bug 256663 explains this. The feature is not currently fully implemented
and was disabled for a while. Marking INVALID.

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This isn't invalid. It's a duplicate of the server-side issue we have with not
actually having all of the plugins listings and packages on the server. I'll try
to locate that and dupe this. 

Comment 6

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258955 ***