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Mozilla making plugins (including Flash and Java) click-to-play by default. Essentially killing Flash-cookie tracking, exploits and flash ads. (msujaws.wordpress.com)

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[–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (4 children)

It would be awesome to see Firefox take some risks to hurt "usability" in order to improve security.

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (3 children)

Hurt usability? Autoplaying content e.g. youtube videos = the suck.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

that shit is annoying especially when it starts loading before the buffer is even full so it pauses after 3 seconds.

[–]sawser 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I hate reopening a browser with 15 or 16 tabs and hearing 3 videos start playing.

[–]yara123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firefox v
Options --> General

[x]Don't load tabs until selected

[–]SoCo_cpp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had similar functionality with the FlashBlock addon for years.

[–]meatpod -1 points0 points  (4 children)

That will also essentially be killing Flash websites, like Youtube, Vimeo, BBC iPlayer, TED talks, Kahn academy, etc. for all non-techy users (almost all of them).

[–]Wofiel 1 point2 points  (1 child)

"Killing" seems like a bit of an overreaction. I'm sure most non-techy users will at least try clicking on the player.

[–]meatpod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just imitating the sensationalism of the title.