rhythmbox-mozilla should be suggested not recommended
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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rhythmbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Most other NPAPI plugins have been dropped from the Ubuntu-family default install (totem - ubuntu, gecko-mediaplayer - lubuntu), we should default to not having the rhytmbox-mozilla plugin installed as well.
Reasoning:
* privacy/tracking implications in including plugins [1]
* NPAPI is being disabled in Chrome/Chromium [2] this does affect this indirectly as "real" iTunes will have to show it is installed another way (or hopefully they could just start using standards..)
* Plugin support is being deprecated in Firefox and will trigger click-to-play, which AFAICT may make this itunes plugin useless.[3]
Totem also just removed their browser plugins for the above and some technical reasons (the technical reasons don't seem applicable to the itunes plugin though) [3]
(Also proposed upstream to just remove the support entirely, no response yet - https:/
[1] https:/
[2] https:/
[3] http://
1) For 15.10+
2) 3.1-1ubuntu3
Still haven't quite got the hang of distributed development, but I believe this should be enough to do this.