#60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent -------------------------+-------------------- Reporter: genodeftest | Owner: Status: new | Priority: minor Component: General | Resolution: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------- Comment (by genodeftest): Replying to [comment:5 mattdm]: > On my Fedora 23 system right now, I have: > > Plugin 0: Evince Browser Plugin; […] > Plugin 1: Gnome Shell Integration; […] > Plugin 2: IcedTea-Web Plugin […] > Plugin 3: iTunes Application Detector; […] None of these plugins should be enabled by default. The only plugin a stock (vanilla) firefox enables by default is Adobe Flash, which is unsupported and (mostly) unmaintained for Linux since 2012. And although I'm surfing the web quite much I haven't seen any website requesting any plugin but Adobe Flash in the last 2…3 years.¹ Evince used to work when I checked last, but it is disabled by default. Also, there is PDFjs and Firefox will prefer PDFjs unless you know how to use about:config. Gnome-shell plugin never worked in Firefox afaik. It is useless for Firefox. Icedtea provides a java plugin, but Java plugins were broken since they were introduced. It always had an enormous amount of security-relevant bugs and I bet it still has. ¹: java.com requests a java plugin. That's the only exception I can remember. -- Ticket URL: <https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/60#comment:6> council <https://fedorahosted.org/council> Fedora Council Public Tickets _______________________________________________ council-discuss mailing list council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/council-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Fedora Project's mission is to lead the advancement of free and open source software and content as a collaborative community.
