144961 - Enhancement request: Ability to block flash/general mime types, as for images

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Geir Hedemark]

I feel that there should be a generalized interface for disabling of bundles of
mime types. There is a menu selection called "block images from this site" which
presumably blocks jpeg, gif, png and a host of other stuff.

If this was generalized, it would be possible to escape the butt-ugly flashing
flash ads several sites seem to find so necessary.

So: I would like a generalized menu choice to block some predefined form of
content, and I would also like to be able to disable certain mime types
alltogether in the mime/helper applications box. It already has a "save to
file", I would like a "save to /dev/null" as well. If the menu selection were
used to try to block content for a /dev/nulled mimetype, the user should be
told. If it is not blocked, a hyperlink to the mime/helper applications with the
legend "global blocking functionality" should be shown.

It would also be nice if this was taken even one step further, to javascripts
and java applets within pages. Not a mime type or separate files that are
downloaded, but bothersome in some sites nonetheless.

Please feel free to contact me if anything is unclear.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Dupicate of "[REF] implement Macromedia Flash blocker".

There are also bugs on having a general plugin manager....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 70805 ***

Comment 2

[shrirang khanzode]

v

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94035 ***