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I am so happy that I can barely contain myself. Hopefully this means Flash will now be used for important things, instead of shoving ads in my face that I can't dismiss, and follow my scroll bar.
You say that now, but just wait until they're written in JS+Canvas and enormously more difficult to block.
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To take care of the invisible Flash object problem, Firefox could copy what Chrome does for Java applets and have a bar pop up at the top of the whole page, asking if you want to allow Flash to run on the site in question.
If only Chrome did this with it's current click to play implementation
I welcome this move, despite the possibility of some fallout from the change. It'll be painful, but even as someone who once made a living writing ActionScript, I have to say that Flash is sufficiently annoying and insecure that it really needs to be phased out. In the short term, this will probably cause some breakage in certain sites that try to use Flash "transparently" and "unobtrusively" for things like LSOs, dr…
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To take care of the invisible Flash object problem, Firefox could copy what Chrome does for Java applets and have a bar pop up at the top of the whole page, asking if you want to allow Flash to run on the site in question.
If only Chrome did this with it's current click to play implementation
Clicking the puzzle piece shows a menu to "always allow" or to "enable all Flash applets on this page" (and a few other things).
I can see a more obtrusive/apparent UI being implemented if Firefox makes click-to-Flash default.
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If only Chrome did this with it's current click to play implementation
Chrome has a click-to-play implementation for Flash? That is not a plugin? Do I have to go to chrome://flags or something?
Preferences > Under the Hood > Privacy > Content Settings > Plug-ins > Click to play
Or you can search for "Flash" or "Click to play" to find the setting.
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If only Chrome did this with it's current click to play implementation
It does, though not with the same UI as the Java plugin: http://i.imgur.com/xHrRX.png Clicking the puzzle piece shows a menu to "always allow" or to "enable all Flash applets on this page" (and a few other things). I can see a more obtrusive/apparent UI being implemented if Firefox makes click-to-Flash default.
It was something to do with an "ActiveX control," I don't remember anymore. But you should have seen how angry it made 13-year-old-me, because my loud, annoying Flash creations had to be allowed their obnoxiousness by every user. Anyway, the point is I approve. :)
* I'm pretty sure it was IE, could be remembering wrong.
This is great, really, but I'd like to see something more aggressive: Non-foreground tabs should be completely suspended - plugins, JavaScript, media, you name it - unless they specifically request and are granted permission to run in the background.
Flash files are worth silencing by default because you don't usually come to the website for them. They're largely unwanted web rodents.
