Comment 3 for bug 41828

Not the right way to install plugins? What harm does it do? Should extentions be disabled next?

The thing about disabling the plugin finder is, anyone who has used Firefox on Windows *expects* it to be there. The average user (Ubuntu's target audience, if I'm not mistaken) will go to a website that uses flash and decide Firefox is "broken" because it (a) can't display the site correctly and (b) does not provide any visual hints as to how to fix this.
I mean, it's not exactly easy for someone like my mom to add extra (non-free) repositories and apt-get stuff. Nor is Flash technical enough to justify this.

At the *very least*, if the firefox plugin finder is disabled, the yellow "you need a plugin" bar should link to detailed instructions on how to get flash installed.