941137 - Alter plugin defaults for beta/release until whitelist strategy is defined

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

For Fx26 and probably 27, we have decided to hold off turning on click-to-activate for all plugins. This will give Chad Weiner a chance to define a whitelisting strategy for plugin vendors who are making a transition to HTML5 technologies but need additional time to complete that transition. So for now, we're going to flip the plugin default state to activated, and explicitly change Java to be click-to-activate.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: bug941137

This is a patch for all channels, using RELEASE_BUILD to set the correct prefs.

Comment 2

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Comment on attachment 8335490 [details] [diff] [review]
bug941137

Review of attachment 8335490 [details] [diff] [review]:
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This looks good to me.

Comment 3

[Lukas Blakk [:lsblakk] use ?needinfo]

Adding Juan as QA to make sure this gets tested on Thursday's beta 7

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/fx-team/rev/cb500491e8a5

Setting checkin-needed for branches.

Comment 5

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cb500491e8a5

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-aurora/rev/f1f0c01ef96e
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/cc56c23e6663

Comment 7

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g26_v1_2/rev/cc56c23e6663
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-b2g26_v1_2/rev/eb8da4e84441

Comment 8

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Verified as fixed with Firefox 26 beta 7 (build ID: 20131122094025) on: Win 7 64-bit, XP 32-bit, Mac OS X 10.7 and Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit: Java is the only click-to-activate plug-in. 

Please see here for more details: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox26b7-testing

Comment 9

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed using Firefox 27 beta 1 on Windows 8.1 x64, Windows XP x32, Ubuntu 13.04 x64, Mac OS X 10.7. Java is the only click-to-activate plug-in. The plugins that were tested are stated in the etherpad from comment 8.

Comment 10

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d475976b1462

Comment 11

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed using Firefox 28 beta 2 on Windows 7 x64, Windows XP x64, Ubuntu 13.04 x64, Mac OS X 10.8. Java is the only click-to-activate plug-in. The plugins that were tested are stated in the etherpad from comment 8.