281751 - Options Downloads File Types window empty on clean install

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[James Thorby]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050209 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050209 Firefox/1.0+

On a clean install of the latest nightly build (and back until 0.9.3) the File
Types window is empty (Tools -> Options -> Downloads [File Types]).  From what I
can gather this should have a list of all the plugins and offer the option to
"Change Action" and "Remove".  I can click on the Plug-Ins button and it will
show me all the plugins (with enable option).  This has occurred on all PC's
that I have installed it on after Firefox 0.9.1, both Windows 2K and Windows XP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install New OS or install on PC without Firefox
2. Install Fire Fox
3. Go to Tools -> Options -> Downloads

Actual Results:  
The [File Types] scroll box is empty, even when there are plugins installed.  It
is still empty after installing things like Quicktime and Divx.

Expected Results:  
Should show icon, file type name and associated action of installed plugins
(shows this on my 0.9.1 version) but not on anything since.

Comment 1

[James Thorby]

Attachment: Screen Shot of Download Options

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This has nothing to do with plugins, and everything to do with the actions we
take when downloading various file types.

We used to have a set of default rules, but this was dropped out of security
concerns regarding oddball file associations.

Comment 3

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 306362 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change