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| Firefox Plugin Detection Mechanism Leads to 10
Million Flash Downloading
According to the foreign media reports, Firefox developer Mozilla said
recently that the newly-released Firefox upgraded version with flash auto-detect mechanism has
led to 10 million latest flash downloading from Adobe website in a week.
Mozilla released Firefox latest upgraded version 3.5.3 and 3.0.14 last
week which perfectly fixed three critical security flaws in the previous
version. In addition, in order to prevent attackers using Firefox
plugin flaw to attack its users, new versions will initially detect
whether the flash player that Firefox using is the latest or not.
Mitchell Baker, chairman of Mozilla, said that in the last week, about
1/3 new version users have downloaded the latest flash player from Adobe
after seeing the reminding message. “User response rate is very high,
usually the response rate is only 5% when they see software upgrade
information.”, Mitchell said.
Mozilla security team personnel Jonathan Nightingale explains that the
fact a large number of Firefox users would like to update flash player
indicates the importance of network security issues. He said last week
the reason why new Firefox has to detect whether the flash player it is
using the latest version or not is: first, flash player is very popular;
second, 80% Firefox users are still using the old version flash player
according to a corresponding survey.
Adobe company also confirmed that the visitors of flash player upgrading
webpage in the past week had a rapid growth. Adobe products security
and privacy department director Brad Arkin appreciated the latest
detecting mechanism very much by saying “For Adobe, it’s definitely a
good thing for massive users to have the upgraded flash, it assures
their security and we are very happy to see Mozilla sending the flash
upgrading message to its users.”
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