264572 - Plug in Finder Back buttons not functional

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Seen using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041007 Firefox/0.10.1. - also seen on the Mac using a more recent nightly.

STR:

1. Launch the plugin finder service.
2. Note that the "Back" button is disabled as you move through the various dialogs.

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

> 1. Launch the plugin finder service.

clarification: click the "Install Missing Plugins..." button in the notification
bar when viewing a page where you don't have a plugin installed for plugin
content that's there. eg,
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/marcia/archives/plugin-test.html

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

The only back functionality is when you have several plugin licenses available.
 Is there anywhere else you want to go back to?

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Doron: In the example I tried, I was missing both Shockwave and Adobe. Both
radio buttons are checked, and then you move through to the Shockwave End User
agreement. At that point I guess you might want to go back if you decided you
didn't want the other plugin. I guess this is a bit of an edge case because I am
not sure how many sites you would encounter where you would be missing both of
these plugins.

Also, this is pretty minor but I couldn't see the point of showing a "Cancel"
button that isn't enabled at the conclusion process if you can't really cancel.
Is it easy to hide that button? Just a thought.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

As Sarah pointed out, what I meant here is checkboxes instead of radio buttons.

(In reply to comment #3)
> Doron: In the example I tried, I was missing both Shockwave and Adobe. Both
> radio buttons are checked, and then you move through to the Shockwave End User
> agreement. At that point I guess you might want to go back if you decided you
> didn't want the other plugin. I guess this is a bit of an edge case because I am
> not sure how many sites you would encounter where you would be missing both of
> these plugins.
> 
> Also, this is pretty minor but I couldn't see the point of showing a "Cancel"
> button that isn't enabled at the conclusion process if you can't really cancel.
> Is it easy to hide that button? Just a thought.

Comment 5

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060120 Firefox/1.6a1
Back buttons still not working, even worse, Next button not working on Flash Licence page - Bug 322833.

Comment 6

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bug 836415 has now removed the Plugin Finder Service (PFS) from Firefox. As a result, I'm closing all the remaining PFS bugs.

If you're getting this bugmail for an ancient PFS bug, the basic summary of the world today is:

* NPAPI plugins are a dying technology
* PFS was already restricted to assisting with only the 4 most common plugins
* Sites commonly provide their own UI for install a required plugin
* Mozilla is generally focusing on  improving the web platform so that proprietary plugins are not required.

(Note that "plugins" are a completely separate from "browser extensions", such at those found on addons.mozilla.org. The latter are not going anywhere, and are not impacted by the removal of PFS.)