Michael Lefevre writes:
If you don't trust the Flash plugin, then don't have it installed.
Firefox never asked me about Flash when I installed it, and I can't find a plugin anywhere that I can deinstall. It just appeared.
Firefox does not install flash. If flash is not installed and you go to a page with flash content (or other unknown plugin types) the <embed> space contains a picture of a puzzle piece which you can click to install the handler (if we know about it).
Something else installed flash for you. Possibly it was pre-installed on your machine when you got it.
No Flash plugin is listed, and there is no directory containing a Flash plugin that I can find on the machine. Where is it?
I don't want it hidden, I want it gone, and I don't want Flash support installed unless I'm asked for it and I explicitly approve.
In Firefox plugins are either in a "plugin" subdirectory of the install directory, or there's a pointer in the windows registry under HKLM\SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins
typing about:plugins in the location bar will reveal all loaded plugins. If you flip the pref "plugin.expose_full_path" to true that page will show the full path of each plugin. If you do turn that on the full path is availabl to any webpage using javascript to iterate over the navigator.plugins object. Turn it back off when you're done.
-Dan Veditz _______________________________________________ Mozilla-security mailing list Mozilla-security@mozilla.org http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-security
