Re: Ready for Click-to-play Flash?

On 4/7/15 12:02 AM, Chris Peterson wrote:
> btw, I thought all plugins (other than Flash) defaulted to
> click-to-play, but I just created a new Firefox profile and found the
> following plugins were "Always Activate" instead of "Ask to Activate"
> (i.e. click-to-play):
>
> - Flash (no surprise)
> - GCPlugin (GradeCam)
> - Unity Player
> - VidyoWeb
>
> If we can make a common plugin like Silverlight click-to-play, we should
> be able to make these less common plugins also click-to-play. I will
> look into this.

Here is the Firefox 31 code change that whitelisted some non-Flash 
plugins to be always-activate instead of click-to-play:

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/24fc89305763

And a Mozilla blog post about this temporary click-to-play exemption:

https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2014/02/28/update-on-plugin-activation/

And a wiki page detailing click-to-play exemption policy:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins/Firefox_Whitelist

It looks like these plugins' exemptions all expired in Firefox 34 or 36. 
The plugin developers are supposed to reapply for a second 24-week 
exemption. I will follow up.


chris