725604 - Real Player Plugin via PFS fails and i way out of date

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Steps to reproduce:
-> Go to http://www.real.com/realplayer and notice the PFS infobar
-> Wants to download Real Player 10.5 - actual is 15 - install fails and ask for manual install

PFS output: 
https://pfs.mozilla.org/plugins/PluginFinderService.php?mimetype=audio%2Fx-pn-realaudio-plugin&appID={ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}&appVersion=20120129021758&clientOS=Windows%20NT%205.1&chromeLocale=de&appRelease=10.0

seems the XPI download link there http://forms.real.com/real/player/download.html?type=firefox is broken too since even manual install fails.

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Warnung: WARN addons.xpi: Download failed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST) [nsIZipReader.getInputStream]"  nsresult: "0x80520006 (NS_ERROR_FILE_TARGET_DOES_NOT_EXIST)"  location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/XPIProvider.jsm :: loadManifestFromZipReader :: line 839"  data: no]
Quelldatei: resource:///modules/XPIProvider.jsm
Zeile: 839

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.)