524726 - plugins finder wizard moreInfoLink inconsistent capitalization

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[mcdavis941 (sporadically reading bugmail)]

Attachment: screenshot of plugin finder service wizard showing the prompt

The text of the prompt shown in the Plugin Finder Service window is:

"Find out more about Plugins or manually find missing plugins."

Should both uses of the word "plugins" should be lower-cased?  It seems inconsistent as it is now.

You could argue it either way, with "Plugins" referring to big-P Plugins, Plugins the Service, not just plural of plugin but Plugins the Concept and everything it takes to bring plugins to users.  But it's not a proper noun, it's not part of a title, and it's not part of a heading, so I would think it should be lower-cased.

Also wondering if there's a convention for whether links have periods on them.  I would have thought no period.

STR:

1. Go to the URL for this bug. (.../reftest/plugin-sanity.html)
2. Click any of the in-page missing-plugin icons.
3. The plugin finder wizard should open and search for plugins.
4. Finally it tells you it can't find a plugin and displays the prompt.

See plugins.dtd, line 20

Comment 1

[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.)