Click to Play to become Mozilla default

[ron_1]

According to this post at gHacks [ http://www.ghacks.net/2014/03/02/mozilla-start-blocking-plugins-default-firefox/ ] Mozilla is soon planning to block plug-ins by default, meaning that "click to play" will be the default setting. It says this will apply to all plug-ins except those that apply to be whitelisted, and are approved. My question is this: since Palemoon is currently based on ESR 24, will this affect Palemoon? I'm guessing "no," but I'm not an expert at things like this either.

[jumba]

Didn't read the article completely, but I think that the Mozilla is setting all browser plugins to use "Ask always to activate" as default for all plugins. This configuration is a drop down menu in the plugins dialog which of course can be changed by the user.

[Moonchild]

It won't affect Pale Moon, as I intend to keep the default setting to "enable" plugins (as found in the add-on manager). The big news is therefore "we're making something else the default"

[jumba]

MC, are you however going to "block" all known harmful and out of date plugins? E.g. old versions of Java?

[Moonchild]

MC, are you however going to "block" all known harmful and out of date plugins? E.g. old versions of Java?

They already are, and have been. That is what the blocklist is for that has been in Pale Moon since day 1. Known vulnerable plugins are already blocked.
This is why I say the "news" is far from shocking. It isn't even news.