284053 - Download Actions should allow changing to different plugins

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Zulith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0+

Tools > Options > Downloads > [Download Actions] View & Edit Actions > should
allow selecting from multiple plugins when available for file types.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install a Firefox build containing new Options panel (in my case: Mozilla/5.0
(Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050227 Firefox/1.0+),
hourly BEAST tinderbox build (.exe)
2.Install Quicktime (www.apple.com/quicktime). Quicktime plugin will be placed
in the Firefox plugin directory by its installer.
3.Install another application which has a Firefox plugin that can also play .MOV
files. For the purposes of this example, VLC: www.videolan.org. Place its
included Mozilla plugins in the Firefox plugins directory if they aren't by its
installer (I can't recall if they were ...)
4.In Firefox, Tools>Options>Downloads>"View & Edit Actions">Highlight ".MOV"
extension and click "Change Action". At the bottom the "Use This Plugin" setting
does not allow you to select between the VLC plugin and the Quicktime plugin.
(and in my case, it selected the VLC plugin automatically even though Quicktime
is associated with .MOV files)
Actual Results:  
Firefox does not seem to notice that there are multiple plugins capable of
handling the same file/mime type.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should allow a dropdown list or similar selection interface for changing
the plugin setting.

program versions (may not matter, but for reference)
Quicktime 6.5.2
VLC 0.8.1

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
highly unlikely to be the source of a fix to the code.

While your input is very important to us, our resources are limited and so we
are asking for your help in focussing our efforts. If you can still reproduce
this problem in the latest version of the product (see below for how to obtain a
copy) or, for feature requests, if it's not present in the latest version and
you still believe we should implement it, please visit the URL of this bug
(given at the top of this mail) and add a comment to that effect, giving more
reproduction information if you have it.

If it is not a problem any longer, you need take no action. If this bug is not
changed in any way in the next two weeks, it will be automatically resolved.
Thank you for your help in this matter.

The latest beta releases can be obtained from:
Firefox:     http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/
Thunderbird: http://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/releases/1.5beta1.html
Seamonkey:   http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 3

[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