Closed Bug 875956 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

NPN_Status no longer works as of Firefox 21

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
21 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: badkins79, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.6+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Chromium/23.0.1271.95 Chrome/23.0.1271.95 Safari/537.6+

Steps to reproduce:

I maintain a plugin for Firefox since version 3.6. That plugin makes use of NPN_Status to show messages in the status area. As of Firefox 21, it has stopped working. Note that this feature has been broken for a long time when using the seperate plugin process. For that reason, I have an about:config setting to get my plugin loaded in process, and this has worked until now. 


Actual results:

It appears that Firefox 21 has broken the NPN_Status handling for in process plugins. There are no errors reported. No status messages show up at all. Status message still work for websites.


Expected results:

When my in-process plugin calls NPN_Status, the status message should appear on screen.
OS: Linux → Windows 7
Hardware: x86 → x86_64
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
setting window.status has been completely disabled in Firefox.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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