589067 - [plugincheck] The supported browser list is wrong

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: plugins.mozilla.org, defect)

Description

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/more_info.html says

Fully Supported Browsers
* Apple Safari 4
* Google Chrome 4
* Mozilla Firefox 3.0+
* Opera 10.5

Limited Support
* Microsoft Explorer 7+

Actually, the current Fully Supported Browsers is Firefox 3.6+ only, because other browsers and the older version of Firefox don't expose navigator.plugins[id].version (See Bug 522585).

And, the page works with IE6 ;)

So the browser list should be:

Fully Supported Browsers
* Mozilla Firefox 3.6+

Limited Support
* Mozilla Firefox 3+
* Microsoft Explorer 6+
* Apple Safari 4+
* Google Chrome 4+
* Opera 10+

Comment 1

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Personally I think that this whole list of works best in.... browser list can be dropped now. We have moved on a looooong way from these versions of the mentioned browser most, if not all, having even reached end of life so, I suggest we remove this part of plugincheck, shaving of a couple of bytes from the JS and making the page that little bit faster.

Anyone against that?

Comment 2

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

(In reply to Schalk Neethling [:espressive] from comment #1)
> Personally I think that this whole list of works best in.... browser list
> can be dropped now. 

+1 for this

Comment 3

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

(In reply to Carsten Book [:Tomcat] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Schalk Neethling [:espressive] from comment #1)
> > Personally I think that this whole list of works best in.... browser list
> > can be dropped now. 
> 
> +1 for this

Hey Carsten,

Are you actively working on this?

Comment 4

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

Pull request sent: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/899

Comment 5

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/8cb231061c0347291be78a1b23f1debcb6426817
Fix Bug 589067, remove browser version detection and display from ui and perfedies

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/cffc8d95b20764747a02f8134aad376b8b1b1429
Merge pull request #899 from ossreleasefeed/bug589067-remove-browser-version-from-ui

Comment 6

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

This bug wasn't fixed by that PR because the list from the original request wasn't updated on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/more_info.html. That page is still in SVN, so it will need to be updated separately.

The bedrock changes should go live shortly.

Comment 7

[raymond [:retornam] (inactive)]

bedrock changes  fixed https://www.allizom.org/en-US/plugincheck/

Comment 8

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

(In reply to Paul McLanahan [:pmac] from comment #6)
> This bug wasn't fixed by that PR because the list from the original request
> wasn't updated on http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/more_info.html.
> That page is still in SVN, so it will need to be updated separately.
> 
> The bedrock changes should go live shortly.

Indeed, my changes was just for the new plugincheck

Comment 9

[Schalk Neethling [:espressive]]

The new plugincheck page supports just about all the locales now and also, the more_info page has been retired so therefore, I am closing this as resolved/fixed.