reassign 314967 firefox thanks * Neil W. Van Dyke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Package: mozilla-firefox > Version: 1.0.4-2 > Severity: normal > > > If you don't already have a Flash plugin installed, whenever Firefox > renders a page containing an embedded Flash object, firefox displays a > tan-colored banner across the top of the window, which says "Additional > plugins are required to display all the media on this page" and has a > button labeled "Install Missing Plugins...". > > Clicking the button brings up a window that provides "Macromedia Flash > Player 7.0" as the only option to install. > > I'd prefer that Debian software wasn't quite so persistent about berating > users to install closed-source software. > > To my knowledge, there is no viable open-source Flash player, but that > doesn't mean that users should be pushed to install a closed-source > player. In fact, I think the difficulty of developing and maintaining > an open-source Flash player that tracks a standard controlled by a > closed-source vendor suggests that perhaps we should not be encouraging > use of the format at all. > > Please consider making the Debian version of Firefox both: (1) not > encourage users to install closed-source plugins, and (2) not put up > that annoying banner for people who don't want to install a Flash plugin.
I'm guessing this is no better in 1.5? -- Eric Dorland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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