MASTER Firefox 3.5 Plugin Finder Service in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 displays "No suitable plugins were found" for flash
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
ubufox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alexander Sack | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Alexander Sack |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
Firefox 3.5 Plugin Finder Service in Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 displays "No suitable plugins were found" for pages with flash content.
These steps are needed to trigger the bug:
1. Open a page with flash content, e.g. http://
2. Click "Install Missing Plugins.." on the bar that appears with the text "Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page."
3. Firefox 3.5 Plugin Finder Service is then launched, with the text "Available Plugin Downloads" and "Press Next to install these plugins."
4. When "Next" is pressed "Completing the Plugin Finder Service" is displayed along with "No suitable plugins were found."
The user is then forced to manually installed the plugin needed from a link by the name "Find out more about Plugins or manually find missing plugins." given by firefox. This link points to: https:/
There the user will find a link to: http://
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 3 01:01:36 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: firefox 3.5.3+build1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
Changed in firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Small note - it appears that on the initial popup window containing the text "Press next to install these plugins" that there should be a list of plugins to install (if my memory of older versions serves me correctly). Not only is the list blank, but there is no list widget.