952463 - Plugins running authorization questions enter into a loop when plugin.sessionPermissionNow.intervalInMinutes is set to 0

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 886792

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[ASm0v]

Hi everybody.
Switched to "Ask to Activate" to all the plug-ins in the Plugins Page
Set plugin.sessionPermissionNow.intervalInMinutes to 0 in about:config
Setting plugins.click_to_play to True of False in about:config make no difference at this stage.

For example at the first plugin running request for Adobe Shockwave by the page the question "Allow www.website_name.com to run Adobe Flash?" pops up. After answering "Allow" on the top right, the second pop up windows (new feature in FF 25) is asking you the same question, but giving you the choice of "Allow Now" or "Allow Now and Remember". Once "Allow Now" is pressed it goes back to answering the first question and so on entering an endless iteration.

I was trying to force FF to make me allow the plugins for each request occurrences. 
Now I have to switch back to plugin.sessionPermissionNow.intervalInMinutes to 1 to make it work.
The issue, of course, is that you're vulnerable for 60 seconds after you've allowed the plugin once each time. I don't know how FF would react with other plugins, so I assumed the problem would be exactly the same.

Anyway FF is asking me two question to obtain a similar result needlessly. If I switch to "Always Allow" or "Never Allow" in the Plugins Page, the whole activation security questions are skipped.

It seems to me the entire "Plugins Authorization" procedure has to be rethought. Good luck and great work always!

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

If you want to choose every time, please use the addon for that purpose.