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Plugin check not working

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When I go to the "plugin and update" page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_campaign=plugincheck-update, nothing happens. No plugins are shown and all the status indicator does is spin in circles. I am using the most recent updated version 36.0.1 of Firefox. Any help in rectifying the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

When I go to the "plugin and update" page https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/?utm_source=firefox-browser&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_campaign=plugincheck-update, nothing happens. No plugins are shown and all the status indicator does is spin in circles. I am using the most recent updated version 36.0.1 of Firefox. Any help in rectifying the problem would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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please make sure that it is set to "never activate" instead of "ask to activate" though. a number of people reported that this could resolve the issues on the plugin check website...

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hi MOUNTAINWILLIAM, can you see if you can resolve the problem when you go to the firefox menu ≡ > addons > plugins & set the "java deployment toolkit" to never activate and then reload the plugin check page?

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I double checked the java deployment toolkit (10.9.2.5) and it is still blocked / deactivated from when Firefox did so a long time back. I also retried the plugin check page to find the problem there still exists. Thanks for your suggestion.

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please make sure that it is set to "never activate" instead of "ask to activate" though. a number of people reported that this could resolve the issues on the plugin check website...

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You are correct, I neglected to mark the toolkit to "never activate", that did the trick! Thanks again for your help!