Re: What's the long term plan with Click-to-play and Flash?

On 6/2/14, 11:36 AM, [email protected] wrote:
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>> This sounds like a reasonable guess, but we definitely need to collect
> some data.
>
> Would top 1000 sites be a good sample?  I'm not sure how to best confirm this assumption.

I don't think that we can make decisions based only on the most popular 
sites, no. I expect that if we really wanted to prove this, we'd want to 
measuring using Firefox telemetry and then perhaps run an experiment:

* start by adding a telemetry probe for the max number of plugin 
instances per-page
* run an experiment: when Firefox encounters a page with more than 3 
instances, prompt the user to tell us the domain name.
* Run an experiment: try cutting off Flash after 3 instances, and ask 
people in that situation if their website is "broken".

But as I said, I really don't think the costs are going to be worth it 
anyway, and we should focus on replacing Flash advertising with Shumway 
rather than making it click-to-play.

--BDS