565158 - Firefox on Mac shows wrong QuickTime plugin version

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 313700

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Chris Gonyea]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100503 Firefox/3.6.4
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When going to about:plugins, Firefox shows that the current version of the QuickTime plugin installed is 7.6.3. However, Safari shows that version 7.6.6 is installed.

Why is Firefox showing an old plugin version (which also the Plugin Check page detects) when there is a newer version available?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch Firefox
2. Type about:plugins in address bar and hit enter.
3. Scroll and find QuickTime on the list. Note the version number.
Actual Results:  
QuickTime version 7.6.3 appears.

Expected Results:  
Should match same QuickTime version that Safari uses, 7.6.6.

Comment 1

[Chris Gonyea]

Attachment: Screenshot showing QuickTime plugin version 7.6.3 in Firefox

Comment 2

[Chris Gonyea]

Attachment: Screenshot showing QuickTime plugin version 7.6.6 in Safari

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Can you try with a fresh profile (or quit Firefox and move aside the "pluginreg.dat" file in your existing profile)?

Offhand, smells like one of the many known "pluginreg.dat isn't properly updated" bugs.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Also, just to be sure, are the 64-bit and 32-bit quicktime plugin versions the same on your OS?

Comment 5

[Chris Gonyea]

Removing pluginreg.dat from the profile folder and having it regenerate upon starting Firefox fixed the issue. It is now showing 7.6.6 for the plugin version. Guessing this is one of the pluginreg.dat isn't updating properly bugs mentioned in comment 3.

I am running Firefox on an Macbook with an Intel Core Duo processor (32-bit only). Not sure if the 64-bit question even applies here.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In that case, it doesn't.  Sorry, that was just automatic reaction to the 10.6 thing, since that tries to be 64-bit if it can, and we're still 32-bit on it...

Comment 7

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Bug 313700 is the one I was thinking of; there are several very similar pluginreg.dat update bugs that are slight variations on a theme (but also in 313700's favor, I seem to recall just seeing Apple put out a QT update for 10.6, too).