Re: [council] #60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent

#60: Firefox: Don't increase fingerprint by adding "Fedora" to user agent
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Reporter: genodeftest | Owner:
Status: new | Priority: minor
Component: General | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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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.

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