Bug#769716: iceweasel: downloads Cisco's OpenH264 video codec

Jakub Wilk jwilk at debian.org
Sat Nov 15 20:17:17 UTC 2014


Package: iceweasel
Version: 33.1-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy §2.2.1

On first start, Iceweasel downloads the "OpenH264 Video Codec provided 
by Cisco Systems, Inc." plugin (which is a binary blob) and enables it 
automatically. This happens without asking the user for consent.

Bug reports about the same problem in other distributions:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1155499
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=525810

-- 
Jakub Wilk



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