On 10.02.2017 01:09, Xidorn Quan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, at 04:29 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: >> Will this also prevent loading downloaded .swf files into Firefox? This >> is >>> useful for running Flash games, which tend to work best in the browser >>> (some media players also support loading Flash files, but their hotkeys >>> tend to conflict). >> >> It will prevent them from loading via File > Open, yes (and that is the >> fundamental change we need to make). If you were to serve them via >> localhost you could still use them (e.g. with python -m >> SimpleHTTPServer). > > I kind of disagree with this. SimpleHTTPServer is simple for developers > but not at all for normal users. I think it should be allowed to load a > top level Flash file. What harm could it do if we allow that? >
toplevel loads includes opened via window.open and target=_blank, no? This means HTML/JS from file:, ftp: etc. could still find a way to open SWF from those non-HTTP/HTTPs sites. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
