587536 - There should allowVideos and allowAudios in the docshell to allow developers stop loading such resources

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P5)

Description

[Wind Li]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
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There should allowVideos and allowAudios in the docshell to allow developers stop loading such resources, as well as allowImages and allowPlugins

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Wind Li]

We meet real issues on Firefox4 without this options.
Refer to:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autopager/reviews/282768/

AutoPager load the pages in an hidden page to extract content elements. We can now disable images with allowImages, and disable plugins with allowPlugins. But there's no way to disable html5 videos and audios.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Could one just use content policies for this?

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yep.

Comment 4

[Wind Li]

Thanks for the response.
I had tried content policy. It works. But the implementation looks a little complex then the support for plugins and images.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yes, but that's because you're trading off complexity on your side for complexity in the core....

Comment 6

[Wind Li]

Not only on my side. It will help a lot developers, who are using allowImages and allowPlugins to disable images and plugins will mostly need a way to disable videos and audios.

Comment 7

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472046

Move all DOM bugs that haven’t been updated in more than 3 years and has no one currently assigned to P5.

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