32380 - Multiple Plugins for same MIME type

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P3)

Description

[rw263]

When one has multilple plugins for the same mime type it is often difficult to 
configure which plugin runs. C(One has to play around with the dates etc...). It 
would be much easier if the about:plugins was in a drag&drop movable order, or 
if there where <input type=text> boxes where one could list 1,2,3,4, etc... and 
then submit it and the plugins would be in the order specificed. These are just 
two suggestions but there are many ways of handling this with a NICE user 
interface.

Comment 1

[Peter "jag" Annema]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***

Comment 2

[Peter "jag" Annema]

Let me add a comment as to why I marked this a duplicate:
Like the submitter suggests, the two solutions presented are just two of the 
many ways of handling this problem.

To clarify, [e-mail] 's solution is to put all plugins in a user 
determinable order and then have mozilla iterate over that list, matching the 
first plugin which implements the MIME type it's looking for. This however has 
some disadvantages. Assume plug-ins 1 and 2 both do MIME types A and B, and you 
want 1 for A and 2 for B. Place 1 first and it will catch both A and B, place 2 
first and that will catch both A and B.

The solution presented in bug 19118 is to present a list of MIME types with 
radio buttons for all plug-ins doing that MIME type, which is more generic.

Both these bugs however want to accomplish the same: better management of which 
plug-in is used for what MIME type. Hence I marked this a dup of bug 19118 :-)

Comment 3

[Alan S. Jones]

I agree Peter, good catch.  The orignal bug is "Plug-In Manager for Browser" 
reading the actual description shows much more specifices about what is wanted 
then this bug.