[CentOS] FireFox and Plugins

[Alice Wonder]

On 11/02/2016 09:37 PM, Alice Wonder wrote:
> While doing a browser fingerprinting survey, I was quite surprised to
> see I actually have a FireFox plugin installed.
>
> The culprit is
>
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
>
> It appears that whoever maintains the rhythmbox RPM has chosen not to
> package the browser plugin separately like it probably should be. So if
> I have the rhythmbox RPM installed, I have the plugin.
>
> This is rather worrisome because I can find no trace of the plugin in
> the Mozilla preferences panel, so if it is there it is very well hidden
> and if it really isn't there, it can't be disabled there.
>
> Is there some kind of blacklist file I can put in
> /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ or ~/.mozilla/plugins/ to specifically tell
> FireFox not to load that plugin, or do I have to uninstall rhythmbox?
>
> Thank you for suggestions.
>
> PS does anyone actually have a real world use for an itms detection plugin?
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I added this bugzilla -

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1391323