gecko-dev/uriloader
Gijs Kruitbosch 6c3c9b5bf3 Bug 1633790 - allow PDF.js use when we've misled the user into misconfiguring PDF handlers, r=jaws,mattwoodrow
Prior to this patch, PDF.js tracks both its own 'disabled' pref (which is used
by enterprise policy) and whether it is the default handler per the handler
service - but it tracks both in one bool, which determines whether its
streamconverter registers.

Really, what we want is to never use PDF.js if it's preffed off.

However, if there is some other default, it should be acceptable to use PDF.js
in some circumstances, like for <embed> or <object>s where otherwise we
would show no content at all.

Even for toplevel PDFs, if the user has configured Firefox to open PDFs in
an external helper app which is Firefox (which is currently an easy mistake
to make in the unknownContentType dialog), or has it set to the OS default,
but has changed their OS default to Firefox, we really still want to open
those PDFs with PDF.js.

This patch fixes all of this by splitting out the pref tracking from the
handler state tracking. Only the pref will completely disable PDF.js.

Then, in the streamconverter code, we check whether PDF.js should be used for
PDFs, and if there's a misconfiguration that we can correct. This code is
invoked from the parent process when we load PDFs in frames or toplevel
documents, and will prevent us from invoking PDF.js in the child if the user
would prefer that not to happen.

As a driveby, this cleans up how we track the pref inside PDF.js, and how we
get notified of changes to the handler - we were missing changes made in the
unknown content type dialog, so it seemed worth making it generic.

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D73510
2020-05-06 20:28:36 +00:00
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base Bug 1628961 - Replace "clang-format off" with semicolon workaround for clang-format bug 1629756. r=smaug 2020-04-16 09:49:35 +00:00
docs no bug - mozlint/codespell - Add two docs directories in the list + fix typos r=marco DONTBUILD 2020-03-09 10:43:14 +00:00
exthandler Bug 1633790 - allow PDF.js use when we've misled the user into misconfiguring PDF handlers, r=jaws,mattwoodrow 2020-05-06 20:28:36 +00:00
prefetch Bug 1319881 - Remove UsingNeckoIPCSecurity r=valentin,necko-reviewers 2020-04-29 12:00:01 +00:00
moz.build Bug 1595601: Add documentation for the external handler service. r=Gijs 2019-11-12 19:45:26 +00:00