Feature: Return empty for navigator.plugins and navigator.mimeTypes
(No longer pursuing)
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This change was cancelled. See the bug. With the removal of Flash, there is no longer the need to return anything for navigator.plugins and navigator.mimeTypes. These APIs were used primarily for a) probing for Flash player support, or b) fingerprinting. As such, we'd like to return empty for these two properties. Gecko already switched to returning *only* Flash starting with Firefox 52, and returning empty as of Firefox 85.
Motivation
Improve interop, remove fingerprinting vector, general API cleanup.
Demo
Status in Chromium
No longer pursuing (tracking bug)
Consensus & Standardization
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Search tags
navigator, plugins,Last updated on 2021-04-13
Comments
Note that this is not the removal or change of any API, it is merely the return of empty arrays for these two existing APIs.