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Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks

Posted by Soulskill on from the primed-with-new-features dept.

An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 17 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition in this release is click-to-play plugins, announced back in October. In short, the addition means Mozilla will now prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight (more will be added eventually)." The release notes are available, as is a list of changes for devs. Firefox for Android got a new release as well (notes).

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  1. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X by _xeno_ · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So what?

    I hate to point out the obvious, but no web site in existence does "retina" anyway. The only thing adding "retina support" to the browser would do is make a very high-DPI UI (I guess) surrounding a webpage designed to be viewed at the same DPI that every single other computer in existence uses.

    You're not missing anything, really, and asking Firefox to waste resources on something that maybe a few percent of a percent of Firefox users can even use is just ridiculous.

    Almost as ridiculous as the fact that apparently they ARE wasting resources on that (if it's in nightly builds). Firefox doesn't need "retinal support" until real computers and OSes support it.

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  2. Re:Still no Retina support for OS X by _xeno_ · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Ah, finally, the first answer from someone that actually makes sense! "I paid a ton of money on a useless feature, everyone drop what they're doing and support it!!!"

    Kind of reminds me of Windows 8 and touch screens.

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