952824 - Nightly Plug-in Finder's Next button is clickable before a plug-in is found

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[daft.goon]

Attachment: Next button can be clicked while the plug-in is still being searched.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:29.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/29.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131221030204

Steps to reproduce:

Install a fresh copy of Firefox Nightly(version 29.0a1), go to YouTube.com, and since Adobe Flash is not installed, Firefox will ask to install the missing plug-in. Click "Install missing plug-in."


Actual results:

While the Plug-in Finder service searches for a valid plug-in, the "next" button is visible and can be clicked on.


Expected results:

The Next button should not light up, or be clickable. It should only become clickable when it has finished searching for a plug-in.

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.)