417600 - Disabling one plugin in plugin manager will disable all plugins for that type

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Toolkit :: Add-ons Manager, defect)

Description

[Pekka Lampila]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008021319 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008021319 Firefox/3.0b3

If you have multiple plugins for the same thing installed and disable one of them in the plugin manager, the other plugin will _not_ be used instead.

In my case I have both Adobe and Swfdec plugin for Flash, and would like to be able to choose which one to use.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Adobe and Swfdec Flash plugins
2. Disable the one that appears first in the list at plugin manager
Actual Results:  
Flash files will no longer be shown at all

Expected Results:  
Flash files will be shown by the plugin that was not disabled

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That is no plugin manager, it's a helper application manager and you can only assign a filetype handled by a plugin to a helper application.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

That seems the wrong dupe. It seems reasonable to think that after disabling a plugin that the next plguin that supports the type should take over. This is really something like bug 19118

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

sorry, you are right, i pasted the wrong bug number ( i meant to dupe it to the plugin manager bug)