45923 - "plugin downloader plugin" (libnullplugin.so) does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 48483

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Description

[Chris Waterson]

The "plugin downloader plugin" (libnullplugin.so) will not load on *nix systems 
because it cannot find the FE_GetTopLevelWidget() symbol. Apparently, it has 
hard-links to that symbol that it tries to resolve. When it can't dlopen() 
bombs and fails to load the beast.

We need to either:

1. Stub one so that the thing can load

2. Write a new plugin downloader plugin for Unix

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

Nominating for nsbeta3. Without this, pages that contain plugins will not show 
the "puzzle piece" that indicates to the user that s/he needs to download a 
plugin to see the content.

Comment 2

[av (gone)]

Is it part of the build? Or you just stole it from 4.x installation?

Comment 3

[Chris Waterson]

I just stole the 4.x plugin. Do we already build a "new style" plugin 
downloader plugin?

Comment 4

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

[nsbeta3-]. If Andrei fixes his nsbeta3+ bugs sooner than expected, he'll return
to this.

Comment 5

[shrirang khanzode]

FYI: I have logged bug 48483 to track the addition of default plugin to linux 
and mac. 

Comment 6

[av (gone)]

Resolving as a dup of 48483.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 48483 ***

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

verified