Closed Bug 665340 Opened 14 years ago Closed 11 years ago

NoFlash or NoPlugin Header

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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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
Component: General → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
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
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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