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When "click to play" plugins are found on a page, their start up will be delayed until a user performs interaction with the browser to enable the running of the plugin (as much as possible). | When "click to play" plugins are found on a page, their start up will be delayed until a user performs interaction with the browser to enable the running of the plugin (as much as possible). | ||
|Feature ux design=Visible plugins will have a chrome-privileged overlay that users will click on to activate the plugin. Invisible (or barely visible) plugins will cause an infobar to appear to enable all plugins on the page. | |Feature ux design=Visible plugins will have a chrome-privileged overlay that users will click on to activate the plugin. Invisible (or barely visible) plugins will cause an infobar to appear to enable all plugins on the page. | ||
Also see {{bug|754472}}. | |||
|Feature implementation plan=Phase 1: | |Feature implementation plan=Phase 1: | ||
Users can turn on a preference to require click to play for all plugins globally | Users can turn on a preference to require click to play for all plugins globally | ||
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(Note that we may allow vendors a few days or a week to update their users before remotely requiring click to play on a plugin. This will depend on the severity of the vulnerabilities in the plugin.). | (Note that we may allow vendors a few days or a week to update their users before remotely requiring click to play on a plugin. This will depend on the severity of the vulnerabilities in the plugin.). | ||
Phase 3: | Phase 3: Fix the bugs that prevent click-to-play from being awesome (see {{bug|774937}}). These bugs are, for example, click-to-play breaking Youtube on OS X. | ||
Phase 4: Explore possible future Use Cases 1-3. This needs more research. Can we leverage user behavior to define a heuristic of when a plugin should be click to play? Can we collect Telemetry data to help us understand how often plugins are used? | |||
|Feature implementation notes=Meta bug for the work is {{bug|738698}}. Please file any bug relating to click-to-play as blocking that bug. | |||
Phase 1 landed in Firefox 14. | |||
Phase | Phase 2 landed in Firefox 16. | ||
Phase | Phase 3 is under way. | ||
}} | }} | ||
{{FeatureInfo | {{FeatureInfo | ||