Opt-in activation for plugins

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Status

Opt-in activation for plugins
Stage	Planning
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Release target	`
Health	OK
Status note	`

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Team

Product manager	`
Directly Responsible Individual	Justin Dolske
Lead engineer	Justin Dolske
Security lead	David Chan (dchan)
Privacy lead	Sid Stamm (geekboy)
Localization lead	`
Accessibility lead	`
QA lead	AndreiD (andreid)
UX lead	Alex Limi
Product marketing lead	`
Operations lead	`
Additional members	`

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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Unknown, slow or insecure plugins shouldn't be allowed to run without user interaction.

Meant to help with multiple scenarios:

1. Accidental/malicious install: "Hey, we suddenly found a new SketchyWare.dll plugin on your system. Did you actually want to use it?"
2. Performance: The "Java makes my system asplode when a page loads, but sometimes I want to use it" problem.
3. Security: Users who don't trust Flash, as well as giving us a way to soft-block a plugin that a user needs to use on legit sites (YouTube, intranet, whatever).

Chrome already does something similar.

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

• Ability to set autoplay, click-to-play or never play on any plugin
• Built-in whitelist for the most common plugins

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

• Settings: Render this plugin: (Always

Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Meant to help with multiple scenarios:

1. Accidental/malicious install: "Hey, we suddenly found a new SketchyWare.dll plugin on your system. Did you actually want to use it?"
2. Performance: The "Java makes my system asplode when a page loads, but sometimes I want to use it" problem.
3. Security: Users who don't trust Flash, as well as giving us a way to soft-block a plugin that a user needs to use on legit sites (YouTube, intranet, whatever).

Chrome already does something similar. |Feature users and use cases=` |Feature dependencies=` |Feature requirements=* Ability to set autoplay, click-to-play or never play on any plugin

• Built-in whitelist for the most common plugins

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	User Experience
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	`
Engineering team	Desktop front-end

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Team status notes

	status	notes
Products	tbd	`
Engineering	tbd	`
Security	tbd	`
Privacy	tbd	`
Localization	tbd	`
Accessibility	tbd	`
Quality assurance	tbd	`
User experience	tbd	`
Product marketing	`	`
Operations	`	`

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