511603 - Windowless plugins not supported in FF 3.5.2 on Mac OSX

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Volker Voecking]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2

Windowless plugins not supported in FF 3.5.2 on Mac OSX.

Change the basic plugin sample (from mozilla-1.9.1/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/mac) to create a windowless plugin: 

In BasicPlugin.c add the following line at the end of NPP_New():
browser->setvalue(instance, NPPVpluginWindowBool, NULL);

This plugin works fine in Safari4, FF 3.6a1 and FF-trunk, however not in FF 3.5.2


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Modify basic plugin sample from mozilla-1.9.1/modules/plugin/sdk/samples/basic/mac to make it windowless
2. Compile it
3. Make sure that the browser finds it. /Users/<username>/Library/Internet Plug-Ins
3. Run test.html in FF 3.5.2
Actual Results:  
Browser information in a grey area (which comes from the plugin) is not shown

Expected Results:  
Browser information in a grey area (which comes from the plugin) is shown

Comment 1

[Volker Voecking]

Attachment: modified basic plugin (windowless) that demonstrates the issue

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.12 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
Also, please consider using the most recent Firefox 4 beta build, your bug may be resolved there.