Mozilla launches Firefox’s “third-party” add-on verification service.
Mozilla has opened a new online service, Plugin Check , which will help users quickly check the relevance of the plug-in version for Firefox. This is not about plugins installed from addons.mozilla.org (their Firefox updates as needed without any problems), but about third-party software from other developers (for example, Flash or Silverlight), which cannot be updated using the usual browser settings. scheme.
Johnathan Nightingale wrote in his blog: “These applications interact with Firefox, but are independent software packages that are updated on their own schedule.” And he added that "we cannot control the update of plug-ins, but we can help our users quickly find out if an update has appeared for a particular add-on."
All this is necessary, according to Mozilla, in order to reduce the number of browser failures and increase security. Apparently, the opinion is well-founded, since statistically the share of plug-ins accounts for a third of all bugs, and if we talk about security, then for a hacker, the addition with the found but not patched vulnerability is an excellent security hole.
So far, Plugin Check works with only 15 plug-ins, of course, the most popular (Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, etc.). But the list will be supplemented and expanded. In addition, the current method of checking (entering the site) is a temporary measure. In the new version of Firefox 3.6, the function of automatic testing of "third-party" plug-ins should already be up and running.
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via pcworld
Johnathan Nightingale wrote in his blog: “These applications interact with Firefox, but are independent software packages that are updated on their own schedule.” And he added that "we cannot control the update of plug-ins, but we can help our users quickly find out if an update has appeared for a particular add-on."
All this is necessary, according to Mozilla, in order to reduce the number of browser failures and increase security. Apparently, the opinion is well-founded, since statistically the share of plug-ins accounts for a third of all bugs, and if we talk about security, then for a hacker, the addition with the found but not patched vulnerability is an excellent security hole.
So far, Plugin Check works with only 15 plug-ins, of course, the most popular (Adobe Acrobat, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, etc.). But the list will be supplemented and expanded. In addition, the current method of checking (entering the site) is a temporary measure. In the new version of Firefox 3.6, the function of automatic testing of "third-party" plug-ins should already be up and running.
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via pcworld
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/72472/
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