227403 - Mozilla needs the ability to enable/disable plugins without deleting them.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 19118

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Ted]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114

I've noticed that the flash plugin, java plugin, etc... have a tendancy to be
extremely buggy.  A lot of browser crashes, lockups, and general wierdness can
be associated with any given buggy plugin.  My suggestion is to add the ability
to enable/disable any given plugin on demand via a list of plugins and a
checkbox next to the plugin name that enables/disables the plugin for all pages.

Then perhaps the browser should display some kind of image or button on pages
that a installed plugin that is currently disabled is called and clicking on the
button will temporarily enable the necessary plugin on the page your viewing.

I can't even begin to express how much irritation it would save to be able to
disable all flash animations while I'm just browsing around so I don't have to
worry about my browser locking up when I go to a poorly designed page.  I just
figured why leave it just at flash animations.  Why not make it so you can
disable anything you have installed....

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 19118 ***