On Friday, July 18, 2014 at 4:31:53 PM UTC-4, Gavin Sharp wrote: > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p428
> It's not clear why some people in the bug are so up in arms about the > overly broad block - is the plugin actually useful in ways we weren't > aware of, or do people just not like seeing the "blocked" message > unnecessarily? Perhaps if the above page would explain the extent of the plugin's functionality, people wouldn't complain so much about this: they probably have no idea what the plugin does, exactly, so when they see it showing as blocked in about:addons, and the site they're on uses Java, they say to themselves "that must be the problem!" and then get frustrated that they cannot do anything about it. Though it looks like it *can* do a bit more than simply launch the installer, judging by <https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/deployment_toolkit.xml>: it also allows pages to select from among the versions of Java available on the system. <https://www.java.com/js/deployJava.txt> may offer some insight into exactly what it can do. Also, even though I don't recall making that particular mistake, it *is* kind of annoying having a warning on the plugin's entry in about:addons that serves no purpose and that I can't get rid of (short of uninstalling Java). _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
