Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 5th Sep 2009 13:52 UTC
Earlier this week, news got out that Apple was shipping an outdated version of Adobe's Flash Player with Snow Leopard; if you updated to a more recent version before the upgrade to Snow Leopard, you would receive a downgrade. This older version had security holes in it, so Adobe advised everyone to upgrade. The Mozilla team has now announced that Firefox 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 will include a Flash version checker.
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In the comments: (emphasis mine)
Chris Blizzard:
This is only the first step in a multi-step process that we’re going down:
1. The first is to do a check when we update the browser. This is what we’ll include with 3.5.3.
2. Second, we’re going to have a regular page that you can go to to check the state of other plugins as well. This will happen sometime this month.
3. Firefox 3.6 will check for newer versions of plugins just like we check for newer versions of Firefox or extensions. If it sees that you have one that’s out of date, you’ll be sent to that page.
4. We’re going to try to get to the point where you can upgrade the plugin via the plugin service that we currently use for installations.
5. We’re also talking about using Adobe’s Express Install system, which can update flash from the flash plugin without having to use a separate installer.
So that’s the long term plan for now. Some of it will be in 3.6, some of we’ll be doing in parallel and some of which is longer term.
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