{"id":186,"date":"2009-10-13T19:35:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T02:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=186"},"modified":"2013-05-16T17:40:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T00:40:16","slug":"mozilla-plugin-check-now-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/10\/13\/mozilla-plugin-check-now-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Plugin Check Now Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A little over a month ago, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/09\/04\/helping-users-keep-plugins-updated\/\">talked about a project<\/a> we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date. This is a really important project for us, because old versions of plugins can cause crashes and other stability problems, and can also be a major security risk. In the first phase, we focused on the popular Adobe Flash Player plugin, and we were thrilled to see <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/09\/16\/plugin-updating-project-follow-up\/\">more than 10 million<\/a> Firefox users click through to Adobe&#8217;s download page to get themselves updated in the first week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Today, we&#8217;re bringing the rest of the story. Our web team has just pushed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/plugincheck\/\">full plugin check page<\/a> live, checking the status of more than 15 popular plugins, with more still in the works. Visitors to the page can see which plugins they have installed and, for any that are outdated, follow an easy link to the update site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/plugincheck\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190  aligncenter\" title=\"Plugin list with update information\" src=\"\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/files\/2009\/10\/plugin1.png\" alt=\"Plugin list with update information\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/files\/2009\/10\/plugin1.png 662w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/files\/2009\/10\/plugin1-300x146.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the upcoming release of Firefox 3.6, we&#8217;ll also include <a href=\"http:\/\/theunfocused.net\/2009\/10\/06\/firefox-3-6-knows-when-your-plugins-are-out-of-date\/\">built-in support<\/a> for helping users keep up to date. When you visit a page with Firefox 3.6, we&#8217;ll use this same service to let you know if any of the plugins used on the site have updates available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We&#8217;ve got a pretty strong list of plugins and versions already but we&#8217;ll continue to maintain and grow it based on our conversations with plugin authors and our users. If you want more information, or are interested in helping out, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/webdev\/2009\/10\/13\/plugin-checker-launched\/\">web team&#8217;s post<\/a>. Did the plugin check uncover any surprises for you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Johnathan Nightingale<br \/>\nHuman Shield<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month ago, I talked about a project we had started to inform users when their plugins were out of date. This is a really important project &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/10\/13\/mozilla-plugin-check-now-live\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,30,69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mozilla Plugin Check Now Live - Mozilla Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/10\/13\/mozilla-plugin-check-now-live\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Johnathan Nightingale\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/10\/13\/mozilla-plugin-check-now-live\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2009\/10\/13\/mozilla-plugin-check-now-live\/\",\"name\":\"Mozilla Plugin Check Now Live - 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