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Status: Untriaged
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Click to play NEEDS to be an option regardless of "freuqently used website"

Reported by b3bom...@gmail.com, Jan 10 2017

Issue description

Chrome Version       : Version 55.0.2883.87 (64-bit)
URLs (if applicable) :
Other browsers tested:
  Add OK or FAIL, along with the version, after other browsers where you
have tested this issue:
     Safari:
    Firefox: OK
         IE:

What steps will reproduce the problem?
(1)Using any version of Chromium/Chrome code based on version 55 and above
(2)
(3)

What is the expected result? Click to play should be an option I choose to always be present, none of this automatic loading stuff for Flash based content (or ANY content using a plugin).


What happens instead? Frequently visited sites automatically run Flash. I don't care how useful you think this is for everyone else, I do not want to leave Flash player running. Some of these are resource intensive and closing the tab is not a good substitute for simply reloading the page and letting click to play block the plugin from loading until I activate it. I won't even get into the security aspect of this because I should not have to.


Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

 

Comment 1 by ajha@chromium.org, Jan 10 2017

Components: Internals>Plugins>Flash
Labels: Needs-Triage-M55
Labels: -Type-Bug -Needs-Triage-M55 M-57 OS-Linux OS-Mac OS-Windows Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Looks like its a feature request.
Anyhow you can disable the flash by navigating to chrome://plugins/ if it helps your purpose.

Comment 3 by b3bom...@gmail.com, Jan 12 2017

Click to play is not a feature request. It was REMOVED in Chromium 55+ and was present for a very long time before that though someone kept changing the way the plugin would activate by constantly altering the click to play behavior (including one point where having to hold CRTL then clicking to make it work). It is, and always has been, a security feature.

I'm well aware the Chromium project developers just want to drop Flash. I'm just going to say forcibly opening my system to security issues based off some automatic generation white list is going to end up with me removing Chromium/Chrome completely from my system.

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