889955 - New click-to-play plugins behavior is annoying.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Potch [:potch]]

I used to be able to click the single flash video I wanted to enable, and after a single click, it was there. Now, I click on the plugin overlay, have to move my cursor over to the doorhanger, make a decision, and only then will the content load. I'm fine with clicking on a plugin overlay bringing up the doorhanger, but it should still *immediately* enable the clicked plugin overlay. The feature is less usable in its current state.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Several versions of this have been filed, but the core decision here is WONTFIX. We want the user to make an explicit decision to use a plugin. There too many ways for a page to clickjack a user into enabling the plugin, and it also dilutes the primary action that most users should take, which is "allow and remember" for plugins that they actually want.

Comment 2

[Potch [:potch]]

Ugh. It really degrades the utility of the feature. I don't want every YouTube page I'm linked to auto-playing, and furthermore, I want just the flash content *I* select running, not every garbage ad on the page.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Note the firefox-dev discussion. Despite its usefulness for some people as a way to keep youtube content from autoplaying, that is not what we're designing it for (and youtube will probably stop using Flash this year anyway).