Update on October 11: Mozilla details how old Adobe Reader, Flash, and Silverlight plugins will be blocked in Firefox 17 Mozilla today announced it will soon start prompting Firefox users to upgrade ...

Last week, Mozilla announced it will prompt Firefox users on Windows with old versions of Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Microsoft Silverlight, but refused to detail how the system will work. Today, ...

Firefox will begin blocking plugins like Microsoft Silverlight, Java, Adobe Reader, and all but the newest version of Flash in an attempt to make its browser faster and more secure. Users will be able ...

Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

Adobe’s Flash player technology has been taking a battering over the last few years, after Apple started not installing it on their new iOS devices, together with a number of security issues related ...

Adobe has released a beta version of Flash Player for Firefox, which has better protection against vulnerability exploits because of a new sandboxed architecture. “The design of this sandbox is ...

In December 2011 Accuvant Labs published a browser comparison suggesting that Google Chrome is more secure than Mozilla Firefox, and that one of the main reasons for this is superior sandboxing in ...

Mozilla engineers plan to disable Java, Adobe Reader, and Microsoft Silverlight capabilities in their flagship Firefox browser in a move aimed at improving security and performance. By default, ...