1263630 - Remove all plugins (except Flash) from the click-to-activate whitelist

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

The plugin click-to-activate whitelist has expired, and we will not be renewing it. This bug tracks remove all plugins except for Flash from the whitelist. This means that they will revert to the default click-to-activate behavior.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: MozReview Request: Bujg 1263630 - Remove everything except Flash from the click-to-activate whitelist, r?jimm

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/45481/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/45481/

Comment 2

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Comment on attachment 8740000 [details]
MozReview Request: Bujg 1263630 - Remove everything except Flash from the click-to-activate whitelist, r?jimm

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/45481/#review42071

That's a lot of plugins, is product ok with this?

Comment 3

[Chris Peterson [:cpeterson]]

s/Bujg/Bug/ in commit message

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/b2bc8ace9ca2

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I am functioning as plugins product manager for the time being. I've discussed this with Javaun, and I've also reached out to every plugin vendor who was on the whitelist.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 8740000 [details]
MozReview Request: Bujg 1263630 - Remove everything except Flash from the click-to-activate whitelist, r?jimm

Approval Request Comment
[Feature/regressing bug #]: Removal of whitelist
[User impact if declined]: Increased exposure to plugin exploits and less data for us about which plugins are still being used in preparation for the end-of-2016 plugin deprecation plan.

[Describe test coverage new/current, TreeHerder]: straight pref removal: no additional tests done at this time
[Risks and why]: this could affect minorities of users who use these plugins, but they should be able to use manual activation still. Many of these plugins are no longer used/relevant.
[String/UUID change made/needed]: none

Comment 7

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/b2bc8ace9ca2

Comment 8

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

I want this to bake in Nightly for a couple of days before uplifting to Aurora.

Comment 9

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Comment on attachment 8740000 [details]
MozReview Request: Bujg 1263630 - Remove everything except Flash from the click-to-activate whitelist, r?jimm

Needed in preparation for plugin block experiment, baked on Nightly for a bit, Aurora47+

Comment 10

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/d6f797000c07

Comment 11

[Kohei Yoshino]

Posted the site compatibility doc. MDN may also need a doc.

https://www.fxsitecompat.com/en-CA/docs/2016/all-plug-ins-other-than-flash-are-now-defaulted-to-click-to-activate/

Comment 12

[Kohei Yoshino]

This may also require a follow-up post on the Security Blog as well as a relnote bullet point to remind people about the NPAPI deprecation.

Comment 13

[Benjamin Smedberg]

We should make this part of Firefox 47 release notes. Suggested wording: `The Firefox <a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/">click-to-activate plugin whitelist</a> has been removed.`

We do not plan on an additional blog post at this time.

Comment 14

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Added to Fx47 beta release notes.

Comment 15

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Updated:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Plugins/Site_Author_Guide_for_Click-To-Activate_Plugins
and
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/49#Security

Comment 16

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Benjamin pointed to me that it will be Fx 47 (as it was obvious from comment 14 :-(, so my bad).
Fixed
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/47#Security
(and removed elsewhere)

Thanks for the good catch!