270239 - Adobe SVG viewer plugin will no longer load on 1.7.3

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 115528

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[fxper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910

The Adobe SVG beta plugin which used to work on Mozilla will now no longer work. 

http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/svgviewer/win/6.x/6.0x38363/en/SVGView.exe

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[fxper]

1. Install mozilla 1.7.3
2. Install SVG viewer 6.0
http://download.adobe.com/pub/adobe/magic/svgviewer/win/6.x/6.0x38363/en/SVGView.exe
3. notice that svg doesn't work 
3a. remember that it used to work on previous versions of mozilla

Comment 2

[fxper]

Same problem with 1.8a5
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041122

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The Adobe SVG plugin uses a number of unfrozen interfaces, which may well have
changed in 1.7.  That would cause it not to work....

Comment 4

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 115528 ***