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You say that now, but just wait until they're written in JS+Canvas and enormously more difficult to block.
Yeah, HTML5 YouTube has the significant disadvantage of autoplay.
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.
Not sure if that's feasible in firefox.
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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.
Pandora uses jPlayer to play audio which has an invisible Flash component to play mp3s on browsers that don't support it. If Firefox requires 'click-to-play' on an on-screen piece of Flash to enable it, all sites using jPlayer to play mp3 simply will not work. And of course this doesn't just affect jPlayer, many other players use this technique. Much better -- as mistercow reasons -- to have a pop-up asking you if yo…
For my money, they oughta make Canvas click-to-play as well, since the rendering speed in Firefox is unbelievably slow and the javascript behind it is so frequently written to hog up 100% of the CPU it's hard to even know what you're looking at if you accidentally stumble across an HTML5 page in Firefox, before your system grinds to a complete halt. It's funny how people blame Flash for slow websites when what they s…
Oh man, bad memories. I used to get so frustrated with Internet Explorer* for doing this about 7 years ago. I was young then, 12 or 13, and had just gotten Flash for my birthday. I know it had to be 2004 or 2005 because the version was Flash MX 2004. I was young enough and it was long enough ago that I think I was using Internet Explorer primarily, and got terrible frustrated when they started using this default clic…
I think I ended up using something like this to bypass it: http://www.flashperfection.com/tutorials/Flash-ActiveX-Micro...
Oh man, bad memories. I used to get so frustrated with Internet Explorer* for doing this about 7 years ago. I was young then, 12 or 13, and had just gotten Flash for my birthday. I know it had to be 2004 or 2005 because the version was Flash MX 2004. I was young enough and it was long enough ago that I think I was using Internet Explorer primarily, and got terrible frustrated when they started using this default clic…
The world would be a better place without these two Adobe products. Their /content production/ software is amazing, and they should just stick to that IMO.