On: Mozilla adds all recent versions of Java to its Firefox add-on blocklist

[reiichiroh]

Now if we could only do this for PDF and Flash.

[kibwen → reiichiroh]

Firefox is already shipping with pdf.js[1], which for me has obviated the need to have a PDF reader installed at all. And they're working on Shumway[2] for the ability to emulate Flash in Javascript.

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/shumway

[eli → reiichiroh]

The bar for forcibly disabling software on an end user's computer is very high -- as it should be.

[camus → reiichiroh]

and javascript ...

[TruthElixirX → camus]

Lets all just go read books.