647118 - Remove support for --disable-plugins

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

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Comment 1

[Josh Aas]

I'm in favor of removing the build-time option. People should be able to disable plugins via a runtime pref though.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Don't register plugins if the MOZILLA_DISABLE_PLUGINS environment variable is set

For reference, this is what i've been using on Debian for a while, and that helps debugging some issues. The pluginsdisabled function could be enhanced to take a pref from the prefs service.

Comment 3

[Mitchell Field [:Mitch]]

Attachment: Remove --disable-plugins

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I'm in favor of removing the build-time option. People should be able to
> disable plugins via a runtime pref though.
...
(In reply to comment #2)
> For reference, this is what i've been using on Debian for a while, and that
> helps debugging some issues. The pluginsdisabled function could be enhanced to
> take a pref from the prefs service.

That's the very hidden plugin.disable preference.

http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/modules/plugin/base/src/nsPluginHost.cpp#395 (and line 2445).

Comment 5

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Ah, that's something new to Gecko 2.0. Good to know.

Comment 6

[Mitchell Field [:Mitch]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/8d3f6093c425