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)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
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
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 23 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 2•23 years ago
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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 ***
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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