On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, at 04:29 AM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
> Will this also prevent loading downloaded .swf files into Firefox? This
> is
> > useful for running Flash games, which tend to work best in the browser
> > (some media players also support loading Flash files, but their hotkeys
> > tend to conflict).
> 
> It will prevent them from loading via File > Open, yes (and that is the
> fundamental change we need to make). If you were to serve them via
> localhost you could still use them (e.g. with python -m
> SimpleHTTPServer).

I kind of disagree with this. SimpleHTTPServer is simple for developers
but not at all for normal users. I think it should be allowed to load a
top level Flash file. What harm could it do if we allow that?

- Xidorn
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