272447 - When I click on pagebuilder in Geocities it prompts a missing plugin download. This plugin has been installed or so it says, and pagebuilder still doesnt load.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Joey Ellison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I build several websites with the geocities service. When I log into my account
and click the Pagebuilder icon, Firefox requires a java plugin. Firefox searches
for this plugin and prompts to install. I install the plugin to no avail. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Log into geocities. Build a free site. 
2.Click on Pagebuilder.
3.It takes you to another page and prompts for a java plugin download.

Actual Results:  
The process starts all over again.

Expected Results:  
Pagebuilder icon should have came up and loaded the pagebuilder program. It
works flawlessly through Internet Explorer.

Comment 1

[Ed Grimm]

I get the same thing under MacOS 10.2.8 on the url
http://patimg2.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US006360380&PageNum=1&IDKey=4D8CC0F73CD0&HomeUrl=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%2526Sect2=HITOFF%2526p=1%2526u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm%2526r=3%2526f=G%2526l=50%2526d=ptxt%2526S1=jillette%2526OS=jillette%2526RS=jillette
Not quite the same thing, as this is the QuickTime plugin (I know it's not the
Quicktime plugin for Windows users; some plugins are silly that way.)

IMHO, the correct behavior would be to detect 'is the plugin installed?'  If it
is, and it won't handle the attachment, flag an error regarding the content,
unless there's an alternate (and not installed) plugin.

If said logic is already in place, there's a bug in the plugin detection code.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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