Re: MIME type parameters

On 1/30/2014 3:31 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
>
> This change only affects cases where Firefox currently complains to 
> the user that "A plugin is needed to display this content" despite a 
> plugin being installed, in which cases the current behavior already 
> seems pretty destructive.
We are *very* risk-averse in this context.

When a website requests something like 
application/x-java-applet;version=1.9 and you currently have Java 1.7 
installed, we don't ask the plugin to handle that type. This is 
intentional, and changing it may lead to unwanted website changes. And 
we really don't know whether or how other plugins use type parameters. 
Making changes of unknown risk to a legacy technology isn't worthwhile.

So I can confidently state that we're not going to make the change you 
are proposing.

--BDS