820348 - click-to-play popup notification on every site is annoying

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 819992

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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Attachment: popup.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121210 Firefox/20.0
Build ID: 20121210030747

Steps to reproduce:

Visit a site that wants to use plugins (such as Adobe Flash Player).


Actual results:

I get a popup notification in the location bar which asks me "Would you like to activate the plugins on this page?". The notification appears on every page with plugins. Attached is a screenshot of the notification.


Expected results:

The notification shouldn't appear on every page. I was browsing Ars Technica and literally every page gave me a popup notification asking me if I want to enable Adobe Flash. Normally I like to leave plugins disabled unless I specifically want them, so blacklisting a site isn't something I want to do. I think this changed recently. If I remember right the old behavior simply displayed an icon in the location bar that I could click if I wanted plugins enabled.