69215 - Browser should remember when I don't want to download a plug-in

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 61103

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Zack Weinberg]

The above site uses Shockwave which I do not have installed.  Mozilla
asks me if I want to download the plug-in every time I load the site.
It should remember that I already said NO and not bother me again.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: Which Build are you using ?
This should be a dupe of bug 64821

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 64821 ***

Comment 2

[Zack Weinberg]

This is not the same as bug 64821.  That bug describes a nonfunctional
"don't show this box again" checkbox.  The popup I get does not have any
such checkbox.  It just says "This page contains information of a type
(application/x-shockwave-flash) that can only be viewed with the appropriate
plug-in.  Click OK to download plugin.  [OK] [CANCEL]"  Oh, and the window
title bar says "default plugin".

I'm using Mozilla 0.8, build id 2001021503, i686-pc-linux-gnu talkback binary,
but I doubt this would be platform-specific.

Comment 3

[av (gone)]

This is a platfom specific bug. Looks like a job for the default plugin. On 
Windows it (the default plugin) keeps a track of mimetypes already seen and by 
default does not show up second time.

Changing platform to Linux. cc'ing serge as he seems to have a momentum on 
fixing the default plugin problems on Linux.

Comment 4

[av (gone)]

Confirming ==> new

Comment 5

[J Luh]

This appears to be a duplicate of bug 61333, or at least a related bug.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

The dialog should display at least once per session if I continue visiting the 
site, unless I do something to say "don't show this dialog again for mimetype 
foo".  At some point, the Windows version would never show again after 
hitting "cancel" once, which is silly because "cancel" shouldn't have any 
permanent effect.

Comment 7

[av (gone)]

This has been well thought and taken by consensus of several people. It is not 
as 'silly' as it might seem. Imagine a user who just doesn't care about all 
those modern gimmick like nice but senseless plugins and cares about real 
content only. Why to bother him every time he hits his favourite page? The 
semantics and connotation of the Cancel button in this case is intuitively 
'Please don't annoy me' which I agree somewhat contradicts to the common 
paradigm of what the Cancel button should do, but perfectly meets this bug 
report summary line.

Comment 8

[karnaze (gone)]

Marking future and reassigning to chrisn.

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 90051 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[shrirang khanzode]

*** Bug 90207 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Alex Bishop]

I think this should be done through a checkbox and not by clicking Cancel.
Imagine if the user wants to download the plugin, but not now. They would have
to click Cancel but then wouldn't be asked next time. In the same vein, when the
user chooses not to accept a cookie, they are still asked next time. They have
to check a box to be never asked.

It might also be a good idea to have a list of don't-ask-me MIME types and allow
users to remove a MIME type from the list.

Comment 12

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 104648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Sean Harding]

How is this different from  bug 61103? It's worded differently, but it seems
like the same basic problem, right?

Comment 14

[Zack Weinberg (:zwol)]

Hmm, yes, that does seem to be the same bug, reported for Mac instead of
Linux.

I get the impression that only the Win32 default plugin is clever enough to
remember what plugins the user has already rejected.  Is this correct?

Comment 15

[André Dahlqvist]

Same bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61103 ***

Comment 16

[shrirang khanzode]

mass duplicate verifications . For filtering purposes, pls use keywd
"massdupverification"