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Mozilla To Bug Firefox Users With Old Adobe Reader, Flash, Silverlight

Posted by timothy on from the they-should-hire-an-annoying-mascot dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Mozilla today announced it will soon start prompting Firefox users to upgrade select old plugins. This will only affect Windows users, and three plugins: Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight. Mozilla says Firefox users will 'soon see a notification urging them to update' when they visit a web page that uses the plugins."

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  1. Re:turn it off? by jones_supa · · Score: 4, Informative

    I run Win2k and Flash can't be upgraded any more anyway. And I use Acrobat 4. I don't want any later version. I don't want to be nagged to upgrade things. I know what I have and I know what I need.

    Actually, when you look at the Archived Flash Player versions, it seems that the 10.x line (the last one compatible with Windows 2000) still gets some kind of minor updates.

  2. Re:Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    The Java plugin already was on that list. They already warn for old versions of Java when the plugin is used.

  3. catering to the tards by Cyko_01 · · Score: 4, Informative

    They are trying get everyone to upgrade because the number 1 issue they have had on the tracker for months is related to people using old versions of flash and it reflects negatively on peoples view of the browser