Bug 474871

Summary:	Firefox unable to find plugins when restores after KDE 4 login
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Stimpson <paul>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl, paul, rdieter, walters
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Description Paul Stimpson 2008-12-05 17:36:11 UTC

Description of problem:

When Firefox is started automatically as part of a KDE 4 login (because it was open when the user shut the machine down) it is unable to find any plugins.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

firefox-3.0.4-1.fc10.i386

How reproducible:

Repeatable every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox on an FC10 KDE install.
2.Open several tabs on websites then shut the machine down.
3.Restart the machine then log back in.
4.Type about:plugins into the address bar of the FF instance that automatically loads.
5.Visit a (for example) Flash enabled site to verify Flash isn't present.
6.Close FF (hitting the option to save and quit.
7.Open FF again.
8.Type about:plugins into the address bar
  
Actual results:

The first about:plugins (step 4) says that there are no plugins installed and the Flash site loaded in step 5 will show the "additional plugins required" message. The second about:plugins shows the correct plugin load and all the sites load and display correctly.

Expected results:

Plugins should be found at step 4.

Additional info:

I also had this problem on FC9.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-12-05 19:14:00 UTC

Pretty much a dup of F-9's bug #437596  (I'll leave it to ff's maintainers to keep a separate F-10 bug open or mark the dup).

See also upstream bugs:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167373
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262258

fact is, currently, ff's and kde4's notions of session management is incompatible.

Best/only recommendation for now is to avoid the keeping ff open on logout/shutdown.

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2008-12-05 21:21:08 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 437596 ***