436480 - mcafee site advisor buttons won't show in google

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Plugins Graveyard :: McAfee AV, defect)

Description

[sean hamilton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 2.6.0.6253

Reported a bug in google in firefox 3 RC1, if you type in something in google the mcafee site advisor logos should load up but instead no logos show up just blank square icons

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.fix bug
2. latest version
3.
Actual Results:  
just blank logo displays not original logo

Expected Results:  
?

load logos on google to tell you what sites to go on

Comment 1

[sean hamilton]

should be fixed

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Please attach a screenshot to illustrate what you're talking about.

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: screenshot

Got this via email from Sean.

For those of us not familiar with SiteAdvisor, what exactly is wrong here ?

Comment 4

[sean hamilton]

logos won't display on google on mcafee site advisor loads up on ie7

Comment 5

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Attachment: IE7 screenshot

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is not a Firefox bug so I'm marking it INVALID. There are several issues that McAfee need to deal with, please contact them instead.

Let me illustrate the badness. First off, they set a maxversion of 4.0 in install.rdf when they can have no idea if their extension works in a hypothetical version 4. Their website only promises support for Firefox 1.5 and 2.0, so that's inconsistent.

When I try to run SiteAdvisor in Fx3 RC1, then I get the following errors in the Error Console:

Failed to load XPCOM component: /Users/nrthomas/Library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/4mqfjkrf.test/extensions/{1650a312-02bc-40ee-977e-83f158701739}/components/FFHook.dll

So their binary component is failing to load. There is also a lot of 

Security Error: Content at http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=cats&btnG=Google+Search&meta= may not load or link to chrome://safe/locale/safe.css.

So they need to figure out how to cope with the tighter file access restrictions in Firefox 3.

Comment 7

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Mark: you worked with these folks on the array-prototype issue, right?  Wanna get in touch again?

Comment 8

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Sean: It looks like you are being affected by bug 292789. A quick summary can be found here:
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2008/04/extension-developers-chrome-uri-changes-you/

However, this should not be causing the component load failure.

Comment 10

[timeless]

We're now tracking such bugs. This doesn't mean it's something we can fix, merely something we hope to be able to point vendors to so they can investigate. This is an automated message.

Comment 11

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Closing old bugs in the Plugins component. We aren't going to track issues in 3rd-party plugins in the Mozilla bug tracker. In addition, support for NPAPI plugins will be removed at the end of this year; for more details see the post at https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2015/10/08/npapi-plugins-in-firefox/

If there is a serious bug in Firefox, it needs to be filed in the "Core" product, "Plug-Ins" component.