Firefox 14 prohibits Flash by default

If you want to watch Flash video and run Java 14 applications, users will have to explicitly assert by clicking the button. Firefox 14 can be released in July / August 2012, the first browser to integrate this function by default.

Firefox 14 will be the first popular browser to have a click-to-play function. The click-to-paly function will be performed by the default integration tools.

According to Ars Technica, the new version of Firefox 14 browser will be able to ban Flash plugins if it is not explicitly accepted by users. Ars Technica said this option has begun to be included in Nightly build - the earliest version in the development of a Firefox version - and will be introduced in the final version of July or early August 2012.

For users, this new point means that, when browsing websites with Flash-based objects (such as videos, banners), their icons will appear with icons that suggest clicking to activate.

Tech blog (Technoblog) Opennet notes that the option to activate Opt-in activation for plugins is being used in Mozilla's Wiki department, Firefox developer. On the wiki.mozilla.org website, Firefox 14 is also described as a browser version implementing the click-to-play function.

Prudent developers with Flash are due to many serious vulnerabilities that make it one of the biggest malware infection channels with personal computers.

In addition, the use of Flash for video presentation also significantly loads on system resources. For example, according to Ars Technica , websites containing multiple Flash banners can increase up to 30% of workload for the central processor.

Click-to-play will look like this in future Firefox 14.

Flash issues are setting the stage for developing alternative technologies for watching videos on the web, and one of the most promising technologies is HTML5. Anyway, Flash is still one of the most popular browser plugins.

To combat Flash's impact on PC operating systems and hardware, Firefox, Chrome and Safari browsers have a wide selection of plug-in-to-play plugins. However, Firefox 14 is the first popular browser to integrate functionality by default.

In addition to the Flash plugin, Firefox 14 can block the operation of 14 other plugins, especially Java applications - a popular infection channel for PCs. For example, the first computer network (botnet) from Macs has formed because Flashback malware uses vulnerabilities in Java virtual computers to infect.

In the Nightly build of Firefox 14, to activate click-to-play, you need to change the value of plugins.click_to_play at the setting about: config. In the coming days, I hope this function will be improved and users will be able to save and set click-to-play for each individual website and each individual plugin.