283043 - Plugin list is not poplulated until 'about:plugin' or a page requiring a plugin is opened

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Jungshik Shin]

A spin-off of bug 273785.

The component may not be correct. 

1. Launch firefox
2. Go to Tools | Options | Download
3. Press 'Plugins' button
4. Plugin list is empty
5. Either open 'about:config' or open any page with a file associated with any
of plugins installed (e.g. flash, pdf, java) 
6. Open the plugin list again and it's now poplulated.

Comment 1

[Jungshik Shin]

See bug 273785 comment #44 and bug 273785 comment #45

Comment 2

[Jungshik Shin]

Note that even though the plugin list is not populated, visiting any page that
needs a plugin just works fine thanks to bz's fix for bug 273785. So, this bug
is a minor issue 

Comment 3

[Jim Roberts]

Work-around:

Set about:plugins as one of your home pages. 

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So the code involved is at
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/browser/components/prefwindow/content/plugins.js#124

What it should be doing is getting the nsIPluginManager service (contract is
"@mozilla.org/plugin/manager;1") and calling reloadPlugins(false) on it before
doing anything else.

Comment 5

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

or just call navigator.plugins.reloadPlugins(false), I think it exists in chrome
XUL.

Comment 6

[Jennifer Sherie Case]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050221
Firefox/1.0+

Installed minutes ago, took the advice of visiting say shockwave.com and the
Options Plugins box is populated. So looks like just maybe this has been
resolved.  Something is telling me that the issue is just showing the population
now. So yes it has been resduced to "Minor"

Comment 7

[Peter Weilbacher]

*** Bug 275873 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Peter Weilbacher]

Is this still an issue? (I just resolved the similar bug 281619 WFM...)

Comment 9

[ptw007]

I am not a programmer or extremely technical so I will not submit patch. This acts as notice of my finding over the past few days. I beleive it needs to be adressed
pat

Comment 10

[Peter Weilbacher]

What _is_ your finding over the past few days and what application and version were you using for your tests?

Comment 11

[Peter Weilbacher]

No more details -> WFM.

If it still happens to someone with a supported version of Firefox, please open a new bug. The code has completely changed, so the hints from comment 4 and comment 5 are no longer valid.