281134 - java disbled - browser restarted - all other plugins no more available

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 273785

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[2cool]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

browser has java, acrobat, flash and other plugins. plugins are working fine.
then: after disable java in options - webfeatures and restart browser, all
plugins are not shown in options - download - plugins and browsing a website
with for example a pdf-document shows the download-dialog instead of open the
pdf with embedded acrobat. this behaviour is the same with all other plugins
(mp3 or realplayer). in about:plugins they are visable. after enable java in in
options - webfeatures and restart browser, all plugins are back

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. disable java
2. restart firefox
3. open a website with embedded pdf-document

Actual Results:  
download - dialog is shown instead of displaying the dosument in browser

Expected Results:  
display the pdf-document in browser-window

no depency of java and acrobat plugin

tested with java 1.4.2_06 and java 1.5  both the same

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

Not finder service, something else in Firefox.

Comment 2

[Markku Virtanen]

I can confirm this bug. I also noticed that if you start FF with Java disabled
and look at the plugins list (tools > options > downloads > plugins) it is empty
but if you now write 'about:plugins' into the address bar and then go checking
up the plugins list again you will see that they are all there. Thus
'about:plugins' sort of wakes up the plugins. 

Comment 3

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 273785 ***

Comment 4

[2cool]

Yes, I have tried it out too: After starting firefox with disabled java, the
disappeared plugins come back by calling "about:plugins".

Comment 5

[2cool]

Before entering the bug (duplicate of 273785) i have posted it in:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=180967

The workarround by using adlblock for all *.class objects does not disable java
for all websites. Specially websites with a java-irc clients use another way to
start the vm

The bug is also not fixed in ff 1.01

My current workarround is a row "user_pref("security.enable_java", true);" in
user.js and a checkbox in the prefbar-extension to disable java after ff has started