Closed
Bug 665340
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
NoFlash or NoPlugin Header
Categories
(Firefox :: General, enhancement)
Firefox
General
Tracking
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RESOLVED
WONTFIX
People
(Reporter: reezer, Unassigned)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110618 Firefox/6.0a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:6.0a2) Gecko/20110618 Firefox/6.0a2
With YouTube and other web sites also providing non-Flash/HTML5 videos and content it would be great if a user would have an easy way to say "please show me the non-Flash version of your website. But there aren't just videos. People use stuff for many things and people without such plugins are unable to correctly view Flash sites.
Therefor I think it would be great to have a global way to tell the server one likes pure, standardized HTML.
I am not sure about the name though. Flash isn't the only Plugin. Silverlight or Java are also not really part of W3C Standards.
Reproducible: Always
Updated•11 years ago
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Component: General → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
Comment 1•11 years ago
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I don't think this really belongs into Plugins.
Other mechanisms like mobile support and click-to-play might, indirectly, be much more effective though in changing what content providers deliver.
Component: Plug-ins → General
Product: Core → Firefox
Comment 2•11 years ago
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This is an interesting idea. There are issues that wouldn't make this work in practice, however:
* client HTTP headers are expensive in terms of the network: we carefully monitor the user agent string and other headers to make sure that they normally fit within TCP sizes. Extra headers would have to be short and very valuable
* It's unlikely that any major web properties would change their behavior based on this header. There just isn't enough user demand to make this an important feature for sites.
* It's not important enough to expose this kind of option in our preferences
* we'll ultimate win just by making HTML5 a better solution. Short-term, that's something we can do by optimizing performance and power/battery usage of HTML5 video; that's the path to ultimate success.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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