457861 - With both swfdec and Adobe Flash - disabling swfec causes Adobe Flash to become unusable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Shlomi Fish]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092903 Mandriva/1.9.0.3-1mdv2009.0 (2009.0) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092903 Mandriva/1.9.0.3-1mdv2009.0 (2009.0) Firefox/3.0.3

I have installed both swfdec and Adobe Flash on my Mandriva Cooker system on a P4. swfdec identifies itself as r999 of Flash. When I disable swfdec in a profile (via Tools -> Add Ons -> Plugins), it doesn't display Adobe Flash at all even though it is enabled.

They have different filenames:

{{{{
$ ls -l ~/.mozilla/plugins/
total 7928
-rwxr-xr-x 1 shlomi shlomi 8115888 2008-09-24 12:07 libflashplayer.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 shlomi shlomi      72 2008-09-30 17:08 libswfdecmozilla.so -> /home/shlomi/apps/net/www/swfdec/lib/mozilla/plugins/libswfdecmozilla.so
}}}}

I can reproduce this on both Mandriva's Firefox and the one from mozilla.org

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put both Adobe Flash and libswfdecmozilla.so under your plugins directory
2. Disable the Shockwave Flash r999 plugin
3. Go to the URL.
4. See that there is no applet.
Actual Results:  
The applet is not displayed at all.

Expected Results:  
The applet should be displayed using Adobe Flash.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Tools -> Add Ons -> Plugins is not for managing plugins.
Gecko picks only one plugin (they both support only the same mimetype) if you have duplicated plugins and if you disable flash then it's completly disabled.

You want bug 19118