Bug 725579

Summary: mozplugger prevents Firefox 5.0 to display .pdf and office documents in browser
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dirk Foerster <dirk.foerster>
Component: nspluginwrapperAssignee: Martin Stransky <stransky>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Dirk Foerster 2011-07-25 21:48:16 UTC
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Description of problem:
In Firefox 5.0 .pdf and office documents will not be displayed in browser. Page stays black for a while and then turns to a be a blank page with no document being displayed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nspluginwrapper-1.3.2-1.fc15.x86_64
nspluginwrapper-1.3.2-1.fc15.i686

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start Firefox 5.0
2.Load any page .pdf or office documents in Firefox 5.0
3.
  
Actual results:
First black than blank page

Expected results:
Document displayed in Firefox 5.0

Additional info:
mozplugger-1.14.2-1.fc15.x86_64

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-28 18:09:29 UTC
That's not nspluginwrapper, but mozplugger which is broken. We generally don't recommend using it, but if you insist then this bug belongs to mozplugger component.

Comment 2 Dirk Foerster 2011-07-29 19:33:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> That's not nspluginwrapper, but mozplugger which is broken. We generally don't
> recommend using it, but if you insist then this bug belongs to mozplugger
> component.

Somewhere, I read that it might be possible that nspluginwrapper wrongly wraps plugins of different architectures.

My system is x86_64. I installed 32 bit flash player. I suspect that nspluginwrapper for 32 bit has been installed then too and wrapped--I am not certain--all installed 64 bit plugins in 32 bit.

I might be utterly wrong since I do not understand very well the inner workings of this. But what if there something went wrong?

In Firefox 5 @ about:plugins I found this:

MozPlugger 1.14.2 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin

    Datei: nswrapper_64_64.mozplugger.so
    Version: 
    MozPlugger version 1.14.2, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
    For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
    Configuration file:	Not found!
    Helper binary:	Not found!
    Controller binary:	Not found!
    Link launcher binary:	Not found!


Whereas this other entry can be found:


MozPlugger 1.14.2 handles QuickTime and Windows Media Player Plugin

    Datei: mozplugger.so
    Version: 1.14.2
    MozPlugger version 1.14.2, maintained by Louis Bavoil and Peter Leese, a fork of plugger written by Fredrik Hübinette.
    For documentation on how to configure mozplugger, check the man page. (type man mozplugger)
    Configuration file:	/etc/mozpluggerrc
    Helper binary:	mozplugger-helper
    Controller binary:	mozplugger-controller
    Link launcher binary:	mozplugger-linker


Finally, just out of pure curiosity--instead of mozplugger--what do you generally recommend?

Comment 3 Than Ngo 2012-03-09 12:06:43 UTC
i cannot reproduce this issue on my test machine. nspluginwrapper* packages are not installed on test machine.
Dirk, does it work for you if you remove nspluginwrapper* packages?

thanks

Comment 4 Dirk Foerster 2012-03-13 21:40:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> i cannot reproduce this issue on my test machine. nspluginwrapper* packages are
> not installed on test machine.
> Dirk, does it work for you if you remove nspluginwrapper* packages?
> 
> thanks

Meanwhile, I have upgraded to Fedora 16 and Firefox 10.0.1 .

I deleted nspluginwrapper.

Now, flash,.doc and .xls are displayed in Firefox.

Comment 5 Martin Stransky 2012-06-11 09:34:00 UTC
Okay, thanks.