{"id":170,"date":"2009-09-16T14:43:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=170"},"modified":"2009-09-16T14:43:12","modified_gmt":"2009-09-16T21:43:12","slug":"plugin-updating-project-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/09\/16\/plugin-updating-project-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Plugin Updating Project: Follow up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/09\/04\/helping-users-keep-plugins-updated\/\">last week<\/a> about a new project we&#8217;ve started, informing our users when they&#8217;re running out of date versions of popular plugins. We focused our initial efforts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/flashplayer\/\">Adobe Flash Player<\/a> and now, a week after launch, Mozilla&#8217;s Numerator, Ken Kovash, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/metrics\/2009\/09\/16\/helping-people-upgrade-flash\/\">blog post<\/a> up looking at the results.<\/p>\n<p>Those results have been nothing short of awesome. <em>In the first week that the project has been live, we&#8217;ve seen 10 million people click through from our page to Adobe&#8217;s update site.<\/em> As Ken points out, this is not just a huge number, it&#8217;s also about 5x higher click through than that page typically sees.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re continuing to look for ways to help our users stay safe and up to date. We&#8217;re working to roll other plugins into our web-based checking, and the Firefox team is also building an integrated check that will let you know whenever a site you visit is trying to use an outdated plugin (more on that soon). This is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Johnathan Nightingale<br \/>\nHuman Shield<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote last week about a new project we&#8217;ve started, informing our users when they&#8217;re running out of date versions of popular plugins. 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