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Mozilla to warn Firefox users of outdated, insecure Adobe Flash installations

article published on 5 September, 2009

Mozilla Corp. has confirmed that with upcoming versions of the Firefox browser, 3.5.3 and 3.0.14, users will be prompted via the "What's New" landing page if they have outdated and possibly insecure versions of Adobe Flash installed. Flash vulnerabilities are used to install malware on the computers of unsuspecting users running versions vulnerable to exploitation. The "What's New" landing ... [ read the full article ]

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windsong
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7. September 2009 @ 03:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
No thanks. With the bastardization of Firefox 3.5, firefox 2.0 serves me just fine.
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7. September 2009 @ 04:15 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I use old 2.x versions of Firefox on my linux machines, how about Adobe start making Flash a tad more stable eh ?, then users wouldn't have to keep picking versions of Firefox that played nice with certain Flash versions,



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11. September 2009 @ 12:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This would be nice if they checked at startup instead of only when you install a Mozilla update. Mozilla updates come out like every 2 months? It's useless if you have an unsecured plugin running for that long.
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