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Mozilla To Enable Click-To-Play For All Firefox Plugins By Default

Posted by timothy on from the choose-your-own-adventure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla on Tuesday announced a massive change to the way it loads third-party plugins in Firefox. The company plans to enable Click to Play for all versions of all plugins, except the latest release of Flash. This essentially means Firefox will soon only load third-party plugins when users click to interact with the plugin. Currently, Firefox automatically loads any plugin requested by a website, unless Mozilla has blocked it for security reasons (such as for old versions of Java, Silverlight, and Flash)."

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  1. Need for speed! by sandytaru · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hopefully this speeds up Firefox considerably. I stopped using it because it was so much slower than Chrome at some basic tasks. But considering Chrome is incredibly unstable on Windows 8, I'm willing to give Firefox another chance.

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    1. Re:Need for speed! by asavage · · Score: 4, Informative

      Chrome uses a massive amount of RAM. About 3x more than Firefox. It is good if you have a lot of RAM but can even run poorly on 8 GB systems, such as if you have virtual memory disabled because of a SSD. I switched back to Firefox because of this.

  2. So why the hell does Flash get a pass? by idontgno · · Score: 5, Informative

    I found it Reading the Fucking Article:

    Going forward, Mozilla will essentially be blocking all plugins except the very latest version of Flash. The company won't say why it is exempting Adobe's plugin, but it's most likely because users expect their videos to play automatically (and advertisers expect their ads to load automatically).

    Emphasis mine.

    "Follow the money." That's a reason I can understand.

    Makes me glad I usually run with Adblock and NoScript.

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  3. Don't see the difference by sjbe · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome is really fast. It does stand out when you use it, even if I prefer to use Firefox.

    I use both daily and frankly can't really see any speed difference for anything I need to do. While there probably are some differences I'm usually more limited by the speed of my connection to the ISP than anything else.

  4. Re:Please include flash! by jorgevillalobos · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes, Firefox Click-to-Play has the same feature.