Opt-in activation for plugins

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Feature Status ETA Owner
Opt-in activation for plugins N/A Justin Dolske

Summary

Unknown or slow plugins shouldn't be allowed to run without user interaction.

Team

  • Feature Manager: Justin Dolske
  • Lead Developer:
  • Product Manager:
  • QA:
  • UX: Alex Limi
  • Accessibility:
  • Security:
  • Privacy:

Release Requirements

  • Ability to set autoplay, click-to-play or never play on any plugin
  • Built-in whitelist for the most common plugins


Designs

  • Settings: Render this plugin: (Always|when clicked|never)
  • When you have clicked a particular plugin on a given site 3 times or more, we should enable it automatically from then on if you haven't explicitly said otherwise.
  • Optional, but interesting: Ability to soft-block 0-day using click-to-play.

Next Steps & Open Issues

  • Get estimates from Justin

Related Bugs & Dependencies

Risks

Test Plans

Goals

Make it harder for plugins to slow down Firefox.

Non-Goals

Other Stuff

Chrome already does something similar.


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