439540 - Add moonlight plugin to Plugin Finder Service

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites :: plugins.mozilla.org, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Andrew Jorgensen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080322 Epiphany/2.22 Firefox/2.0.0.4
Build Identifier: 

Novell would like to have our Moonlight plugin listed in PFS.  The number of users that would hit this is admittedly small thanks to widespread use of plugin detection javascript.  In any case we would like to discuss the possibility.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
2.
3.

Comment 1

[Kim]

Any updates on this bug? Is this request unfulfilled or should I file a new report about the plugin check failing?

about:plugins data if it's relevant:

Silverlight Plug-In
File name: libmoonloader.so
1.0.30401.0

MIME Type — application/x-silverlight
Description — Novell Moonlight
Suffixes — scr
Enabled — Yes

Comment 2

[Pratibha]

Plugin Finder Service - do not show up Moonlight plugin
any update on the status of this request,

Comment 3

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

Is there much point in this request? I haven’t come across usage of this plugin yet… that’s in two+ years since this bug was opened.

Comment 4

[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.)