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What happened to "Ask to activate" option?

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What happened to "Ask to activate" option for plug-ins? Now I seem to only get Always Activate or Never Activate. Ask to Activate is grayed out.

What happened to "Ask to activate" option for plug-ins? Now I seem to only get Always Activate or Never Activate. Ask to Activate is grayed out.
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The 'Ask to activate' option for these plugins is no longer available.

See :

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/11/firefox-drm-and-the-end-of-npapi/

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Hello, you should be able to toggle "Ask to Activate" anyways. :)

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Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link} by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh). Is the problem still there?

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The 'Ask to activate' option for these plugins is no longer available.

See :

https://www.ghacks.net/2016/04/11/firefox-drm-and-the-end-of-npapi/

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Note that you can find the DRM setting (Google Widevine) in Options/Preferences

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Well you all seem to be contradicting each other, but I'm concluding from Happy 112's link that "Ask to activate" is no longer an option, unfortunately. Thanks.

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Yes, you can either enable or disable these special plugins that come with Firefox. When DRM is disabled in Options then Firefox won't use the Widevine plugin anyway.

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Yes I disabled it, but wonder if FF will still let me know if a site I visit requires it...

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cfcentaurea said

Yes I disabled it, but wonder if FF will still let me know if a site I visit requires it...

Sites that need DRM will let you know : You may encounter sites where content playback is not possible without DRM enabled. You may always turn DRM playback on again by opening the Options => Content panel and putting a check mark next to Play DRM content. After checking the checkbox, HTML5 DRM playback will be re-enabled and the Google Widevine CDM will download automatically.