User:Dveditz/Blocklist improvements

Proposed Blocklist Improvements

The problem

The current blocklist mechanism is "all or nothing". If Mozilla in its wisdom deems an addon or plugin too dangerous to use it is disabled for everyone. This has several serious negative consequences:

• should a user really need the exact blocklisted item (perhaps in testing, or a version-locked corporate environment) there's nothing an average user can do but use another brower.
• should the user not be able to upgrade to a patched version they are likewise out of luck
• an above average user can disable blocklisting entirely, which may solve their immediate problem but potentially leaves them vulnerable to other items on the list, and almost certainly will not remember to re-enable blocklisting later

The end result is that Mozilla is extremely reluctant to blocklist items, especially plugins which do not have the easy-upgrade experience of addons. We can't do what's right for 90% of our users, maybe even 99% in the plugin case, because the negative experience for the few is so bad. We apparently can only act when there can't be any good reason for someone to want the older version (such as, you're going to crash anyway).