"98 Guy" wrote:

Preventing plugun scanning will (I think) disable the use of the
plugins in Firefox.
Nope.
Yup.
If you set plugin.scan.plid.all to false, then you'd be disabling plugin
scanning, and then you'd see that none of your plugins are available /
functional.

I could have sworn (SunOverBeach!) that plid.all WAS set to false.
Apparently it wasn't. I must have changed it back and not made a note.

I humbly bow to your Everlasting Magnificence, O Great and Powerful Wizard.

Looking through my entire about:config list, I found a number of "User Set"
entries that may have done what I thought plid did (or didn't), including.....

plugins.hide_infobar_for_outdated_plugin; true
extensions.update.enabled; false
extensions.update.notifyUser; false

As for the plugin.scan.Acrobat value, I changed it back to 5, and the
dreaded Plugin Check page popped up on a restart, bitching about:

Shockwave Flash - vulnerable
Adobe Acrobat - vulnerable
VLC Multimedia Plugin - unknown

Back to 9, no more nag page.

Not bowing *quite* as low as before, but don't worry, you're still special. :-)