News - Firefox 'Click to Play' to prevent drive-by exploits

[HEXUS]

Part of Firefox from version 14 onwards.

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[TheVoice]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Firefox used to do this several years ago anyway?

[Zeven]

I wonder why it's taken the folks at Mozilla this long, and why it will take them even longer (Firefox 14?) to implement this feature. Opera has had it for a long time now, for example.

[Sickorz]

I wonder why it's taken the folks at Mozilla this long, and why it will take them even longer (Firefox 14?) to implement this feature. Opera has had it for a long time now, for example.

At the rate Mozilla do new version numbers these days Firefox 14 will be out next month anyway lol

On a serious note this is long overdue!

[Zeven]

At the rate Mozilla do new version numbers these days Firefox 14 will be out next month anyway lol

On a serious note this is long overdue!

More like 12 weeks or so.

[alex_stanhope]

Even on a 12 week schedule, we're still going to see pretty massive version numbers. I never did understand the policy shift:
http://www.extremetech.com/internet/...a-step-further

In 10 years, Mozilla will be rolling out Firefox v53. Now you could say, "there'll be no Firefox in 10 years", but look at Internet Explorer. It was born 16th August 1995. If Microsoft had taken the new Mozilla approach to versioning, we'd have IE v72! It would still be a beta.

[keithwalton]

I have recently moved over to opera from chrome because it has this feature built in already. As it would seem 2GB of ram isn't enough for most browsers to have facebook, gmail + one other tab open anymore.

[JCBeastie]

I'm already using NoScript and AFAIK it's more sophisticated than this implementation will be. I'm hoping you can disable it.

I see a lot of problems tbh; people not used to it will find it frustrating despite the improved security. People who are savvy will already be using an addon and won't see the benefit.

It really suits no-one as far as I can tell.