467417 - remove support for CFM plugins on Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Josh Aas]

We should remove support for CFM (Code Fragment Manager) plugins on Mac OS X. PPC NPAPI plugins on Mac OS X should be mach-o binaries. Plugin vendors were informed of this change in August of 2008. Barring any major complications, this change should take effect in Gecko 1.9.2 (or whatever comes after 1.9.1).

Comment 1

[Josh Aas]

Attachment: fix v1.0

This needs to be tested on PPC Mac OS X, all major plugins should continue to function. We need to make sure plugins can load and interact with mouse and keyboard and also die cleanly (no crash when closing a tab with an active plugin instance in it).

Comment 2

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Comment on attachment 350836 [details] [diff] [review]
fix v1.0

This looks fine to me.

I tested it (together with the v1.0 patch for bug 467429, attachment
350850 [review]) on my old PPC G4 running OS X 10.4.11, and didn't have any
problems using any of the following plugins:

1) Flash 9.0 r124 (installed by Apple)

   http://rogerdean.com

2) QuickTime 7.5.5 (installed by Apple)

   Movie trailers at http://www.apple.com/trailers

3) Silverlight 1.0 (last version to support PPC)

   Examples at http://www.vectorforum.com/silverlight

4) Real Player 11.0

   Movie trailers at http://www.film.com/movies/trailers

5) Flip4Mac 2.2.1.11

   Examples at http://www.windowsmedia.com/MediaGuide/Home

(The Flip4Mac examples worked pretty badly ... but they were no worse
than in Firefox 3.0.4.  I suspect the Flip4Mac trouble is caused by a
plugin resizing itself after it's been loaded.  See bug 436945 and bug
453445.)

Comment 3

[Steven Michaud [:smichaud] (Retired)]

Attachment: Combo of v1.0 patches for bug 467417 and bug 467429

Here's a patch that combines those for this bug (attachment 350836 [details] [diff] [review])
and bug 467429 (attachment 350850 [details] [diff] [review]).

And here's a tryserver build made with both patches:

https://build.mozilla.org/tryserver-builds/2008-12-04_15:[e-mail]-bugzilla467417-467429-combo/[e-mail]

Comment 4

[Josh Aas]

pushed to mozilla-central

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/01831806827a

Comment 5

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Updating_plug-ins_for_Firefox_3.6