295094 - Plugin finder tries to repost form data after installing Flash

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050521
Firefox/1.0+

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure you don't have Flash installed.
2. Go to http://www.jibjab.com/bud_launch.asp.
3. Enter a birthdate that will let you in.
4. Click the yellow bar to install Flash.
5. Install Flash using the wizard that appears.

Result: When I click the "Done" button on the last screen, I get a dialog asking
me if I want to repost form data.  If I click Cancel, I'm back at the wizard
page with the "Done" button.  My only choices are to click OK to reposting
(dangerous) or click the X on the titlebar of the wizard (hard to discover).

Comment 1

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Bug 836415 has now removed the Plugin Finder Service (PFS) from Firefox. As a result, I'm closing all the remaining PFS bugs.

If you're getting this bugmail for an ancient PFS bug, the basic summary of the world today is:

* NPAPI plugins are a dying technology
* PFS was already restricted to assisting with only the 4 most common plugins
* Sites commonly provide their own UI for install a required plugin
* Mozilla is generally focusing on  improving the web platform so that proprietary plugins are not required.

(Note that "plugins" are a completely separate from "browser extensions", such at those found on addons.mozilla.org. The latter are not going anywhere, and are not impacted by the removal of PFS.)