Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
An anonymous reader writes "As expected, Mozilla on Tuesday officially launched Firefox 17 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The biggest addition in this release is click-to-play plugins, announced back in October. In short, the addition means Mozilla will now prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight (more will be added eventually)."
The release notes are available, as is a list of changes for devs. Firefox for Android got a new release as well (notes).
Click to play plugins? (Score:2, Informative)
As always, Opera did it first.
Re:Still no Retina support for OS X (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Still no Retina support for OS X (Score:5, Informative)
ESR is only supported for a year. It allows for 2 months in between versions before one version is dropped.
IE is going the same route with annual updates. IE 10 is an exception due to the incompetence of the Windows 8 team forcing WDDM 1.2 and DirectX 11.1 onto it which requires significant backporting.
So this time next year IE 11 will be out or in RC states and the following IE 12 etc. Organizations need to learn to adapt to change more rapidly. It is not like a minor release is anything like the huge rewrite of apps that resulted from IE 6 to IE 7 or even 8. Your browser should always be updated at a regular basis.
Re:Still no Retina support for OS X (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Still no Retina support for OS X (Score:4, Informative)
Additionally, any site that renders text will look better. Firefox 17 doesn't render text at the higher DPI supported by new MacBook Pros, causing every site to look blurrier than it would in Chrome or Safari.
For the record, the same is true in Windows: change the scaling factor of the OS, and Firefox simply scales the same low-res text. It's unclear whether the change I mentioned in nightlies will fix Windows as well; I simply haven't tried it yet.
Re:ClickToPlay sounded good; then I read the summa (Score:2, Informative)
No, click-to-play does what you think it does. Like FlashBlock. The Acrobat Reader prompts are an additional feature.
Re:ClickToPlay sounded good; then I read the summa (Score:3, Informative)
To enable click-to-play for all plugins go to about:config in the location bar and set “plugins.click_to_play” to true.
The feature is considered still under development which is why it's not enabled by default.