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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RE[2]: Bizarro Mozilla - should be a plugin
by jabbotts on Sat 5th Sep 2009 17:41
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I'd like to see Adobe do it right and provide the Flash plugin through the normal Mozilla process. Updates could be captured with the rest of the plugin updates and it wouldn't be a visit to firefox.com then a visit to Adobe on updates day.
The same for Microsoft's .NET plugin; why is it not provided through the existing Mozilla plugin framework rather than a -- be it not disableable -- backdoor into the system.
I'm still glad something is being provided at all but going through the existing framework could only be better for end users.
RE[3]: Bizarro Mozilla - should be a plugin
by Hiev on Sat 5th Sep 2009 18:19
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Oh wait..
Is is disappointing to see an open source project helping distribute updates to proprietary extentions. This is like the Linux kernel team pushing out update notices for closed nvidia drivers.
Where does it end? Silverlight? Sun Java VM?
The browser should enable easy updates of its extensions and stuff. Adobe should just make possible for Mozilla to provide such a feature, which seems to be the case already (on Windows, version with its one-click install). Distribution vendors do also allow updating the nVidia modules through package managers.
Edited 2009-09-05 17:18 UTC