Open Bug 875317 Opened 11 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Selecting "Never Activate" for a plug-in should immediately deactivate that plug-in on all pages

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
23 Branch
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: jidanni, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [wontfix?]) 

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130517 Firefox/23.0 Iceweasel/23.0a2 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130517004016

Steps to reproduce:

Browsed http://soyeliana.com/ which emitted background music,
so I desperately went to Add-ons Manager -> plugins to disable shockwave flash, and chose "Never activate".


Actual results:

The music didn't stop.
Sure it won't start next time, but that isn't fast enough.



Expected results:

In the past with the Red Light Green Light switches, it would have stopped right away, instead of needing one to kill the tab to stop it.
Component: Untriaged → General
Summary: "never activate" doesn't stop flashplayer → Selecting "Never Activate" for a plug-in should immediately deactivate that plug-in on all pages
Whiteboard: [wontfix?]
Indeed, you need to refresh the page for the plugin content to disappear. Confirmed on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0.

Marking this as an enhancement request since the current behavior seems to be by design.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Severity: normal → S3
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