313433 - Option to disable all plugins

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

There should be an option button to disable all plugins through the Tools -> Options -> Downloads -> Plug-ins interface. I personally prefer to download all PDF files instead of viewing them through the browser.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 189378 ***

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

erm i'm not sure if i'm saying this correctly but what i meant was a 'Disable All' button. sure still a duplicate?

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

That depends on what you really want:

If you are talking about disabling plugins embedded on the page (using OBJECT
or EMBED tags), this is not possible using the dialog you mention, see the
explanation in bug 236622. Adding this functionality is bug 19118.

If you are only talking about full-page plugins (i.e. what happens if you click
on a link to document that is handled by a plugin), this already works for each
plugin individually listed in the "Plug-ins" dialog. Adding UI there to uncheck
all plugins at once would be WONTFIX, since this dialog has been removed again
on the trunk (it is integrated with the download actions).

If you just want a way to completely disable all plugins unconditionally (this
is how I read your request), this is a dup of bug 189378. Doing this per site
is bug 94035.

Comment 4

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

WONTFIX then, since what i meant was adding that UI to uncheck
all plugins at once.