53453 - on Mac, should delete plugins directory or gracefully detect and handle duplicate installation in both directories

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

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

Description

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

See bug 36089. To fix that bug, we modified the plug-in loading code on the 
Macintosh to check both the "plug-ins" directory (for historical consistency 
with our previous naming convention on the Mac only) and the "plugins" directory 
(which had been created by mistake on the Mac, either by a well-meaning person 
who was trying to achieve xplat consistency at the expense of backward 
compatibility with plug-in installers, or more likely by someone who just wasn't 
aware that the directory name had traditionally been different on the Mac).

We should delete the "plugins" directory or, failing that, come up with a smart 
way to detect duplicate installations (the same plug-in in both directories) and 
Do The Right Thing in those cases, whatever that might be.

Comment 1

[ekrock's old account (dead)]

FUTURE. No time to fix for Netscape 6 RTM.

Comment 2

[Brian Nesse (gone)]

It would appear that this has happened somewhere along the line. There is no 
longer a "plugins" directory on the Mac install.

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

spam : marking invalid bugs 'verif'. reopen if u disagree, reporter!