-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-17 09:17, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Jul 16 22:03 Christian Boltz wrote (excerpt):
... would it make sense to change firefox so that it doesn't "announce" the availability of the flash plugin if it's in click-to-enable state? IMHO it would have the advantage that websites that have a non-flash version will actually deliver that version.
I disagree.
I use since some time Adobe Flash Player in Firefox with "click-to-enable" to be more safe against possible attacks via Flash in advertisments or whatever other third-party content on web sites.
But I have Adobe Flash Player installed because I want to be able to use it when I want it (i.e. when I explicitly click on one particular Flash content).
I do the same, but with FlashBlock, which is more versatile. Thus, I never allow any advertisement using flash to display, and only enable it on the sites (and the precise section of the window) where I absolutely need Flash to run. Some sites have several flash animations, and I only want one of them to run. FlashBlock allows control of this.
I think for your proposal a separated setting in Firefox would be needed like "do-not-announce-flash".
Cf. RFC 1925: It is always possible to aglutenate multiple separate problems into a single complex interdependent solution. In most cases this is a bad idea. ... One size never fits all.
Maybe... an idea. If both flash and html5 are available, who chooses what to use, the web page or the browser? If it is the browser, maybe the preference order can be altered or defined? - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWox1cACgkQja8UbcUWM1xvCwD5AYdzFZ7tpDT8K9K8b3lHtpkv l3pBlmG7XUxQTMwvAoIBAIBiS6JI0U4Kad+bf2YVmiM0Htevi0HPxav5LbVDcZb7 =ghA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org