85269 - No UI for downloading <embed>ded files without plug-in

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 83754

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Steps to reproduce:
1) Load a page that requires a plug-in that you don't have. For exapmle, head
over to http://www.apple.com/trailer/ without the QuickTime plug-in.

Actual results (with plug-in downloader plug-in installed):
You see a rectange with some text and an icon in it. The text tells you to
install the plug-in and then click here. Can't invoke the context menu.

Actual results (build with no plug-in support or without the plug-in downloader
plug-in):
You see an empty space reserved for the <embed>ded content and possibly a dialog
telling you to get the plug-in downloader plug-in. The context-menu provides no
useful items for dealing with the situation.

Expected results:
Expected to have some way (eg. via a context menu) for initiating a download of
the <embed>ded file and for copying the URL of the <embed>ded file.

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

See bug 83754 about replacing the C++ default plugin with an XBL one. It can now
be extended with Javascript.

Comment 2

[vectro]

Does this solve the problem for the case of no plugin support?

Comment 3

[vectro]

Oops, a more careful reading shows that bug 83754 should handle the case of no
plugin support, perhaps better than our current support.

Comment 4

[Jonas Jørgensen]

.

Comment 5

[rubydoo123]

Peter: is this a dup of bug 83754, or is this a dependent on bug 83754, or neither?

Comment 6

[Peter Lubczynski]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 83754 ***

Comment 7

[shrirang khanzode]

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