Closed Bug 820054 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Whitelist plugins with plugins.click_to_play enabled

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

17 Branch
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 549697

People

(Reporter: bob+bmo, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0 Build ID: 20121128204232 Steps to reproduce: Enabled `plugins.click_to_play`. Installed HP SimplePass password manager. Actual results: The HP SimplePass (fingerprint scanner password manager) plugin no longer runs. Expected results: There should be a way to add plugins to a whitelist, where they will always be allowed to run even with `plugins.click_to_play` enabled. I would like to keep most plugins opt-in, with an exception(s) - which I would like to add to the proposed whitelist. At the moment, it is possible to whitelist sites (domains), but this is a plugin that should be allowed to run on every domain, while other plugins remain opt-in.
Component: Untriaged → Plug-ins
Product: Firefox → Core
I suspect that this is WONTFIX, but I'm going to make a pass through the set of CTP bugs and try to come up with a coherent plan early in January.
(In reply to Bob from comment #0) > At the moment, it is possible > to whitelist sites (domains), but this is a plugin that should be allowed to > run on every domain, while other plugins remain opt-in. Sounds interesting...
This should be easy to do with a pref, even if we don't want to add UI for it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 8 → All
Hardware: x86_64 → All
See also bug 776432.
This will be accomplished by the addons manager UI, which (unless plugins are known to be insecure) will allow users to have always-on, always-disabled, or click-to-play behaviors. I'm just going to mark this a duplicate of that bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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