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Honest question to Firefox dev's: I want to keep using firefox, but not the DRM thingy. I'd rather not see any video on the web, to be forced to use DRM techno

by _lce0 11y ago

Honest question to Firefox dev's: I want to keep using firefox, but not the DRM thingy. I'd rather not see any video on the web, to be forced to use DRM technology. Do you plan to support a DRM-free version?

cpeterso 11y ago
To disable EME, go to the Firefox Preferences menu and uncheck the "Play DRM content" checkbox. That will disable EME and delete the Adobe CDM binary if it has been installed. This preference doesn't disable DRM in Flash and Silverlight, however. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm
acdha 11y ago
They already have releases without EME at all if you don't even want to disable it: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/ http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi...
dao- 11y ago
There's a "Play DRM content" checkbox in about:preferences#content. If I remember correctly, unchecking it will completely remove the CDM, checking it installs it again.
chimeracoder 11y ago
> I want to keep using firefox, but not the DRM thingy. I'd rather not see any video on the web, to be forced to use DRM technology. > Do you plan to support a DRM-free version? Iceweasel (the version of Firefox shipped with Debian) will always be DRM-free, as per the Debian policies on free software. It's almost the exact same as Firefox, except the logo and the name - all the other functionality is identical.
dublinben 11y ago
You might be interested in GNU Icecat[0]. It is a spinoff of Firefox that does not include antifeatures like DRM. [0]https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
bzbarsky 11y ago
Yes, we do. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r... has links to the following: 1) Instructions for disabling the DRM bit without uninstalling it. 2) Instructions for uninstalling the DRM bit (and having Firefox never install it again). 3) A link to a version of Firefox 38 that doesn't have the DRM bits. It's worth reading the whole blog post, but the tl;dr is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm and http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/ http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi... (with the latter sadly not as user-friendly as it might be).

by _lce0 11y ago

cpeterso 11y ago

To disable EME, go to the Firefox Preferences menu and uncheck the "Play DRM content" checkbox. That will disable EME and delete the Adobe CDM binary if it has been installed. This preference doesn't disable DRM in Flash and Silverlight, however. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

acdha 11y ago

They already have releases without EME at all if you don't even want to disable it: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/ http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi...

dao- 11y ago

There's a "Play DRM content" checkbox in about:preferences#content. If I remember correctly, unchecking it will completely remove the CDM, checking it installs it again.

chimeracoder 11y ago

> I want to keep using firefox, but not the DRM thingy. I'd rather not see any video on the web, to be forced to use DRM technology. > Do you plan to support a DRM-free version? Iceweasel (the version of Firefox shipped with Debian) will always be DRM-free, as per the Debian policies on free software. It's almost the exact same as Firefox, except the logo and the name - all the other functionality is identical.

dublinben 11y ago

You might be interested in GNU Icecat[0]. It is a spinoff of Firefox that does not include antifeatures like DRM. [0]https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

bzbarsky 11y ago

Yes, we do. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-rights-management-and-firefox/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2015/05/12/update-on-digital-r... has links to the following: 1) Instructions for disabling the DRM bit without uninstalling it. 2) Instructions for uninstalling the DRM bit (and having Firefox never install it again). 3) A link to a version of Firefox 38 that doesn't have the DRM bits. It's worth reading the whole blog post, but the tl;dr is https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm and http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/ http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/wi... (with the latter sadly not as user-friendly as it might be).