Closed Bug 821166 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Add "disable all plugins" checkbox to about:plugins

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Version:
20 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 8
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 817255

People

(Reporter: wiki131wiki, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20121212 Firefox/20.0 Build ID: 20121212034329 Steps to reproduce: Add checkbox to top of about:plugins page to quickly enable/disable all plugins. Useful for troubleshooting issues/increasing security. Other browsers such as Opera/Chrome have this already implemented but Firefox has not added it yet.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
It is planned to remove about:plugins in bug 747301. I thought there was some pref like "plugin.disabled" (for troubleshooting/testing), but this seems to have gone away. If you meant to change the focus of bug 817255, please comment there (and tell me if i misunderstood something).
There is a |plugin.disabled| but it is an undocumented pref -- it just disables the plugins system, and requires a restart to take effect. If we implement this we would need a separate pref that just causes the plugin enabled check to always return false.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Sorry the pref is |plugin.disable|
If about:plugins is being considered for removal, the option could be added in a different location. Maybe "Options" or the setting menu on the plugin manager.
This makes it the same as bug 817255, lets continue over there.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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