383487 - When logging out of sprint.com, plugin finder page shows up

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Attachment: Screenshot of intermediary page before signing out

Seen while testing  Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a5) Gecko/2007060601 GranParadiso/3.0a5.

STR:

1. Login to sprint.com
2. Sign out

Before I reached the final signoff page, I received the intermediary page in the screenshot.

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

That is flash:

<object height="20"><param name="movie" value="images/logo.swf"><embed src="images/logo.swf" height="20"></embed></object>

If flash is installed, then it looks like a regular plugins bug.

Comment 2

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I have flash installed, Shockwave Flash 9.0 r45. And when you actually click on the Missing Plugin, it gives you an message that no suitable plugin was found (unknown plugin/text plain).

Comment 3

[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.)