On 10/9/2015 11:01 AM,
gqu...@gmail.com wrote:
> How will the block all other non-Flash NPAPI plug-ins work? Will it be dependent on a specific version of flash that's dropped/changed some of the NPAPI API?
The current Flash whitelist is based on the MIME type for Flash. We may
change that in the future, but I don't have specific plans.
>
> Two related (sub)questions:
> Linux is on Flash 11.2 which hasn't been getting many of the other improvements for Flash (and is set to be removed in Feb 2017 anyway). Will support for this be removed with the rest of NPAPI at EOY 2016?
> Will other Flash implementations (like Gnash and Lightspark) be blocked too?
How we decide to support Flash in the future is an open question that
we're working on with Adobe.
>
> Plug-in container
> Ubuntu recently had to stop sending bug reports automatically to Mozilla (this is temporary), the results was an influx of plug-in container error reports to Ubuntu's tracker [1]. I haven't been able to find anywhere near that number of reports in the crash-stats error tracker [2]. Is there something I'm missing or does Mozilla get a very low subset of the plug-in based errors from Ubuntu users?
I don't know. We have fairly high plugin crash rates in general,
although typically more on Windows than on other OSes.
> For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS the Chromium devs decided to drop NPAPI support early (by about 2 releases) so it would never be present in the LTS release, which is supposed to maintain (close-to) feature parity for 5 years. The next LTS is 16.04 (Aprils 2016 release) and I'm wondering if Ubuntu should plan to do the same for Firefox. Any thoughts?
Are you the maintainer, or who should I talk to about this? I think it
might be reasonable to limit support to just Flash for the LTS release,
but I'd want to talk to people about their goals. Mozilla as a project
is clearly not interested in maintaining 5-year support cycles for
anything, so we'd encourage people to continue using Firefox mainline or
ESR releases.
> Are there any other Linux specific plug-in plans you can share?
Not really. We want Flash content to continue to display because it's
important to a fairly large set of users, but that's across the board
and not Linux-specific.
--BDS