392266 - No path information for plugins provided in Add-Ons ->Plugins Manager

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Jürgen 'JiHa' Harter]

Seeing this with both 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/2007081404
Minefield/3.0a8pre (official nightly) and 
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8pre) Gecko/200708131616
Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre (self compiled from cvs)

It's possible to show the full path for the found plugins in about:config by toggling user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true).

As it makes sense to merge all plugins information in the new location (Add-Ons ->Plugins; see bug 339056) the path information should also be shown there.

These path information are really extremely useful 	repeatedly because you often have a lot of plugins widespread on your system. By seeing the path you can check which plugins are actually recognized by FF/SM.

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Beltzner and Madhava, what is your guys take on this. As it stands now this info is available in about:plugins and I would prefer not to provide this type of information in primary ui.

Comment 2

[Cédric "chewey" Menge]

What about providing some sort of "about" or "details" in the context menu of a plugin? This information should be accessible /somehow/ in the normal UI IMO.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

I don't think this is something the general user needs, extension fodder