I think this makes sense. Thanks - pushed to bzr, will be in W soon.
** Changed in: rhythmbox (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Fix Committed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1452542
Title:
rhythmbox-mozilla should be suggested not recommended
Status in rhythmbox package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
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://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729285)
[1] https://panopticlick.eff.org/
[2]
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7wMk/D_07G2lftacJ
[3] http://www.hadess.net/2014/04/good-bye-totem-browser-plugin.html
1) For 15.10+
2) 3.1-1ubuntu3
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