876988 - Raw characters (HTML entities) displayed in MIME Type description field of Java plugins

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P5)

Description

[Hung Nguyen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20121128204232

Steps to reproduce:

- Installed Java Plug-in 7u21
- Register  Java Plug-in with Firefox 21 as making the sym link libnpjp2.so from ~/.mozilla/plugins


Actual results:

Open Firefox, about:plugins, part of  the MIME Type description displayed as raw code (&#153)

e.g.:
IME Type    Description    Suffixes
application/x-java-vm    Java&#153 Plug-in    
application/x-java-applet    Java&#153 Plug-in Applet    
application/x-java-bean    Java&#153 Plug-in JavaBeans    
application/x-java-applet;version=1.1    Java&#153 Plug-in    
application/x-java-bean;version=1.1    Java&#153 Plug-in    


Expected results:

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

™ is U+0099 is "Single Graphic Character Introducer". Maybe ® is U+00AE is "Registered sign" was intended here?

Does this problem also happen for the MIME type description of any other plugins, or is it only the Java ones?

Comment 2

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window(m-c)
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8592c41069c2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130111 Firefox/21.0 ID:20130111030906
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1761f4a9081c
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:21.0) Gecko/20130112 Firefox/21.0 ID:20130112030947
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=8592c41069c2&tochange=1761f4a9081c

Suspected:
42b22f0ab58c	Chris Peterson — Bug 757726 - Part 1: Update about:plugins to use document.createElement() and AddonManager. r=joshmoz

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Can somebody please check and see whether this is the value that the plugin is giving us? We should not be parsing the plugin description as HTML, so if it is handing us HTML entities the new behavior is correct and this bug is WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[Hung Nguyen]

It looks like it happens only for the MIME type description of Java plugin

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I believe that the current behavior is the "correct" one then, and the Java plugin should use UTF8 instead of HTML entities.

Comment 6

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

Agreed. VERIFIED WONTFIX

Comment 7

[Dmitry Cherepanov]

Can somebody please clarify and give an example of string (with trademark sign) that the plugin should return. I tried updating the plugin code (and use UTF8) but it doesn't work either.

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/plugins/test/testplugin/nptest_name.cpp#2 is an example using unicode in UTF8.