355299 - Update obsolete plugin-related URLs

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34782 points out various stupid cases where we send users in need of plugins to Netscape-provided sites (and some Java ones) that have since changed/disappeared.  We should really fix these before the next release... ~0 risk, petty good user impact.

Specific examples:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/plugin/samples/default/unix/nullplugin.h#67
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/modules/plugin/samples/default/windows/plugin.h#117

Comment 1

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Attachment: switch to mozdev / java.com

This goes to java.com/download (which does some redirects of its own) for Java, and plugindoc's mimetype page for everything else.  It should be simple enough to update that page to handle parameters passed in the URL for filtering.

Comment 2

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Sorry, CTho, it's a little too late to do this for Firefox 2, and I don't think the value is high enough.

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

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switch to mozdev / java.com

r+sr=jst

Comment 4

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 241128 [details] [diff] [review]
switch to mozdev / java.com

Fixed on trunk.

Comment 5

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Mike, I believe this is not shipped in Firefox.

Comment 6

[Chris Thomas (CTho) [formerly [e-mail] [e-mail]]]

Comment on attachment 241128 [details] [diff] [review]
switch to mozdev / java.com

Requesting 1.8.1.1 just in case.  The dll is built & shipped--but not used--in avairy.

Comment 7

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Comment on attachment 241128 [details] [diff] [review]
switch to mozdev / java.com

a=beltzner on behalf of drivers (NPOTB)

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

clearing 1.8.1.1 nomination, already fixed

Comment 9

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

While it's too bad the Plugin-Finder Service is broken under SeaMonkey (see bug 278831), I've verified that the URLs are at least changed, with build 2006-11-24-10 under Windows XP trunk.