Closed Bug 106700 Opened 23 years ago Closed 23 years ago

Abilitiy to disable other active content, not only Java and JavaScript

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

x86
Windows 98
enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

People

(Reporter: spamcop, Assigned: mpt)

Details

Currently one can only enable and disable JavaScript and Java in the
preferences. But there are more kinds of active content that one might want to
en- or disable. It's also possible to disable pictures and picture animation
looping, but it's not possible to disable active content embedded using the
unofficial EMBED or the official OBJECT tag.

Some pages use this to embed sound files (MIDI, WAV, RealAudio) or video files
(QuickTime, RealVideo, etc.) into their pages, which are usually started via a
plug-in.

It should either be possible to enable/disable active content as a whole
(meaning all EMBED and OBJECT tags are disabled), however that's not optimal,
since you can use OBJECT to embed pictures (like with IMG) and HTML or TXT files
into a web document and that's not really active content, or even better, it
should be able to enable/disable certain plug-ins only.

Therefor there should be a list of plug-ins in the preferences and the user can
set certain plug-ins to disabled. When Mozilla then search for the right plug-in
for a certain embedded object, it will skip the plug-ins marked as disabled.

Since Java also only works via a plug-in, there is no need to offer an extra
checkbox for Java anymore, as when you disable the plug-in, it won't work
anymore either.

And it should be placed under "Privacy & Security", not under "Advance", as Java
and JavaScript is currently wrong in place. See, if enabling and disabling
pictures is a security issue (and it currently is under "Privacy & Security"),
Java and JavaScript is definately a security issue as well and so are all other
plug-ins.
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Assignee: asa → mpt
Component: Browser-General → User Interface Design
QA Contact: doronr → zach
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Duplicate of bug 66644 ("[RfE] Mozilla should have preference for switching off
Flash support etc.") and hence of "Plug-In Manager (ui for choosing
mimetype-plugin associations)"

"Advanced" is going away; the JS prefs will move out of there, do not fret.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***
vrfy dupe
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Component: User Interface Design → Browser-General
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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