95646 - plugin not an option for helper applications

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Chris Dolan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010802
BuildID:    2001080214

There is no way to disable a plugin without removing it.  In NS 4.x, one could
choose between three options on a MIME-by-MIME basis: save to disk, external app
or plugn (if available).  This third option is missing in mozilla.

I have the Acrobat reader plugin in Mozilla 0.9.3 which successfully embeds PDFs
in the browser page.  However, I decided I prefer to view my PDFs in the
external reader.  Even after adding a MIME preference for the external app, the
plugin is still selected.

There should always be the option to override the plugin without removing it,
preferably for any MIME type.

Comment 1

[av (gone)]

I guess this is XP. The issue have been floatin around for a while. Shrirang, do 
you remember if we have a dup?

Comment 2

[Christopher Aillon (sabbatical, not receiving bugmail)]

This is covered by an RFE for a Plug-In Manager (which I agree would be pretty
cool!)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***

Comment 3

[shrirang khanzode]

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