Re: Plugin whitelist

Is there a plan to onboard users with this change to the user experience? We conducted user tests last fall for Flash CTP and the overwhelming majority of users we tested were frustrated that they were required to complete additional step to reach their desired content. Further, participants were confused by the security implications of CTP.

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Bill Selman
Lead User Researcher
Mozilla Corporation


On Monday, March 3, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:

> On Friday Chad posted and blogged about our proposed plugin whitelisting 
> policy.
> 
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins/Firefox_Whitelist
> https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/02/28/update-on-plugin-activation/
> 
> The primary goal of this policy is to give plugin vendors who are 
> working on moving towards HTML5 solution some additional time to make 
> the transition, as well as providing feedback from plugin vendors to our 
> web API teams about features missing from the web platform. We will 
> continue to preserve user security by keeping engineering and QA 
> contacts for each plugin vendor.
> 
> Please ask questions/provide feedback by replying to 
> mozilla.dev.tech.plugins.
> 
> --BDS
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