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Installing Plugins on LiveCD - No description found in plugin database

Bug #291417 reported by Andrew on 2008-10-31

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubufox (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	High	Alexander Sack
	Intrepid	Fix Released	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu intrepid-updates

Bug Description

Reproduce/Verify:

(old package)
1. open about:config
2. ensure that pfs.datasource.url and pfs.datasource.filename have a distributionID=8.04

(new package)
3. open about:config
2. ensure that pfs.datasource.url and pfs.datasource.filename have a distributionID=8.10

On the Intrepid (final release) LiveCD, when you try to install Flash through Firefox, it doesn't give the plugins any description. giving a very bad impression. The same occurs when trying to install Java.

Screenshot attached.

This needs to be added in, as end-users may not know the difference between the flash options, so the descriptions need to be there. It also just looks broken, not making the end-user confident of it's success.

See original description

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Related branches

lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubufox/ubuntu.intrepid

lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/ubufox/ubuntu

lp:ubuntu/karmic/ubufox

lp:ubuntu/intrepid-proposed/ubufox

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Andrew (and471) wrote on 2008-10-31:

Screnshot of What I Mean Edit (53.7 KiB, image/png)

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-02:

flash should be ok. java applets might cause a problem.

Changed in firefox:
assignee:	nobody → asac
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → In Progress

Alexander Sack (asac) on 2008-11-03

Changed in ubufox:
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Fix Committed
milestone:	none → intrepid-updates

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-11-05:

fix is in ubuntu.intrepid branch linked to this bug. this should bubble up to the upstream branch and jaunty of course.

Alexander Sack (asac) on 2008-12-01

description:

updated

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-12-01:

This bug was fixed in the package ubufox - 0.6-0ubuntu2

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ubufox (0.6-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

    + LP: #291417 - Installing Plugins on LiveCD - No description found in
      plugin database; we fix distributionID in pfs.datasource.url pref.
      - update defaults/preferences/ubufox-pfs.js

-- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:43:28 +0100

Changed in ubufox:
status:	In Progress → Fix Released

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-12-01:

uploaded ubufox_0.6-0ubuntu1.8.10.1_source.changes to intrepid-proposed

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote on 2008-12-01:

Accepted into intrepid-proposed, please test and give feedback here. Please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote on 2008-12-15:

verified using the instrucitons in bug description. tagging accordingly.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-12-15:

This bug was fixed in the package ubufox - 0.6-0ubuntu1.8.10.1

---------------
ubufox (0.6-0ubuntu1.8.10.1) intrepid-proposed; urgency=low

    + LP: #291417 - Installing Plugins on LiveCD - No description found in
      plugin database; we fix distributionID in pfs.datasource.url pref.
      - update defaults/preferences/ubufox-pfs.js

-- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:42:14 +0100