Plugin authors may apply for inclusion on a whitelist that will exempt their plugin from being blocked by default by filing a request in the Bugzilla system using this template. Applying for inclusion on the plugin whitelist. We will provide users with the choice of activating any and all plugins that we block as they come across pages that use them.Ģ. Plugins will soon be blocked by default in Firefox. This policy consists of the following five sections:ġ. This is the official Mozilla policy for whitelisting plugins. We therefore invite such plugin authors to apply for a short-term exemption to our plugin blocking policy. We also recognize that authors need some time to adjust to web-based replacements. Though we believe that plugins are today both largely unnecessary and costly to the user experience, many of our users and developers still rely on a relatively small number of them for critical functions.
To ease this transition, and to support plugin and site authors making good faith efforts to move away from NPAPI-based plugins, we will implement a whitelist that exempts certain plugins from default blocking, if their authors satisfy specified requirements. To improve the stability and performance of Firefox, and to safeguard the security of our users, Mozilla will block plugins by default, rather than automatically activating them. No new whitelist applications are being accepted, and existing whitelist entries will be removed in future Firefox releases.