Add-ons disabled or failing to install in Firefox
Incident summary Updates – Last updated 14:35 PST May 14, 2019. We expect this to be our final update. If you are running Firefox versions 61 – 65 and 1) … Read more
Articles tagged with “security”
Firefox 37 – Domain whitelisting disabled for non-HTTPS pages
If you have installed add-ons from sites other than AMO, you might be familiar with the domain whitelist. When you try to install an add-on from a third party site, … Read more
Adobe Flash 10.2.* and lower are now Click-to-Play
As part of a larger effort to put users in control of their plugins, we have enabled Click-to-Play on old versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. For versions 10.2.* … Read more
Protecting Users Against Java Vulnerability
As explained on this post in the Mozilla Security Blog, all versions of the Java plugin are vulnerable to a security bug that could compromise users’ systems. Because of this, … Read more
Java 7 Update Notification Now Live
A serious Java vulnerability was made public earlier this week, which is being actively exploited by attackers. Oracle released an update that fixed this vulnerability today, so we are now … Read more
New Java Blocklist
The June 2012 update to the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) included a patch to correct a critical vulnerability that can permit the loading of arbitrary … Read more
Java block now complete for Mac OS X
Continuing with our effort to eradicate vulnerable versions of the Java plugin, we are now blocking it for all versions of Mac OS X. We had previously blocked it for … Read more
Vulnerable versions of Java plugin blocked for OS X 10.5 and older
Two weeks ago we blocked vulnerable versions of the Java plugin on Windows and some Linux distributions. We haven’t followed up with the Mac OS X operating system for a … Read more
Update on Java Blocklist
We blocklisted the Java plugin yesterday, and there are 2 major updates that you should know about. Firstly, Apple has released a security update that fixes the security vulnerability in … Read more