899624 - Defect - When a site requires a plugin, notify the user to switch to desktop browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 869603

(Firefox for Metro Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Firefox for Metro, using the latest Nightly build 20130730 and Acer Iconia w700 tablet.

STR:
1. Load link.samsung.com and sign in
2. Download the installer and run it by switching back to the desktop
3. Go back to FF Metro and log in

Expected: I could log in or it gives me an Error message requiring that I need to login using the Desktop browser (which is what IE does)

Actual: It keeps asking me to download the installer again.

Comment 1

[Tim Abraldes [:TimAbraldes] [:tabraldes]]

It looks like "Samsung Link" is a separate application and perhaps also a Firefox plugin.

There are lots of pages that use plugins but work completely fine without the plugin, so we should probably provide a message along the lines of this:
  "Some of the content on this page requires a plugin to view properly. If this page is not displaying correctly, please try switching to desktop Firefox."

A more experienced wordsmith can figure out the exact verbiage, but I think we generally know how to proceed here.