Closed Bug 1281943 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Hide the flash plugin from blocked sites

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
48 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1186948

People

(Reporter: jeremy9856, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: flashplayer)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/50.0.2661.102 Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: Most websites will use html5 player if the flash plugin is disabled but will still try to use flash when the plugin is only blocked for the site. This happens because sites can detect the plugin even if it is blocked which creates privacy vulnerability and prevent sites from using the html5 player. It will be much better if blocked sites can't detect the plugin and use html5 player (if available) like this add-on allow to do https://addons.mozilla.org/en_US/firefox/addon/flashhider/ Thanks !
URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en_US/fire...
Keywords: flashplayer
OS: Unspecified → All
Hardware: Unspecified → All
I think what you’re asking is exactly what’s being done in bug 1186948
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Firefox → Core
See Also: → 1186948
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Thanks !
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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