671425 - Display mime-type of missing plugin in dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, enhancement)

Description

[Garrett Hartshaw]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110709153846

Steps to reproduce:

Opened a webpage that had non-installed plugins


Actual results:

I clicked the "Install Missing Plugins..." button, and the pop-up said "No suitable plugins were found." It does not say what plugin was missing.


Expected results:

The pop-up should say which plugin was required by the web page if it cannot find any.

Comment 2

[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.)