159437 - Extend Image Blocking to Plugins and Applets

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94035

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Samuel]

The reasons for blocking images apply to just about anything you can put an
OBJECT tag in for:

1. Ads.

2. Web bugs.

3. Attempts to destroy the layout of on-line forums, or just posting nasty
looking pictures.

4. Bandwidth concerns.

Additional reasons for blocking non-images:

5. Background music. How many people deleted the MIDI DLL from Netscape 4.x?

6. The Flash or Java equivalent of fork bombs.

You could add another entry to the Privacy and Security section, or just add a
generalized "privacy rules" manager that allowed rules across images, iframes,
cookies, etc. (An analogous UI would work for information automatically
submitted, such as form info, referrer and cookies, but that's another issue.)

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

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

Comment 2

[Vidar Haarr (not reading bugmail)]

verified