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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 SpaceCracker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I run Win2k ...

    Firefox has detected an old version of Windows. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade Windows to the latest version.

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    sigo ergo sum
  2. Re:turn it off? by mister_playboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Opera is probably the wisest browser choice for Win2K.

    Then again, using an OS that stopped getting security updates more than 2 years ago on an Internet-connected computer implies you don't care much about making wise choices.

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    Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law ::: Love is the law, love under will
  3. Disable by markdavis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I have no problem with Mozilla doing this as long as the user (or admin) can disable it through about:config.

  4. None of this should be needed. by Zaphod-AVA · · Score: 4, Insightful

    None of this should be needed.

    Microsoft should just allow third party critical updates through Windows Update. Flash, Reader, and Java flaws account for most of the malware installs, and most users are bad at keeping these things up to date. Running a stack of update utilities is irritating to advanced users and confusing to novice users. All this does is make the malware industry happy.