On 1/27/15, Paul B. Gallagher <[email protected]> wrote: > Lately the Mozilla plugin check has been confused and confusing: some > plugins that are up to date according to their publishers are listed as > out of date, and others are suddenly "unknown." What gives? Did Mozilla > suddenly abandon this and quit managing it?
It's a non-trivial task keeping the list updated but your first example shows they are keeping it current. > Examples: > > Adobe Shockwave Flash 16.0.0.287 is listed as "potentially vulnerable" > and I'm advised to update, but this is the current version. Just checking if you've got the latest version available for download isn't good enuf :( http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html Users who have enabled auto-update for the Flash Player desktop runtime will be receiving version 16.0.0.296 Adobe expects to have an update available for manual download during the week of January 26 > Adobe Acrobat 10.X (in my case, 10.1.13.16) has been listed as out of > date for years, but there are no updates available (unless I want to > shell out hundreds of dollars for a version upgrade -- any reason to do > that?). Adobe security bulletins are at http://helpx.adobe.com/security.html > The famous Java Runtime Environment is suddenly up to date and green > although it's blocked as unsafe. Hunh? JRE has had a pretty bad security record lately. The latest version probably is unsafe. > All these are "unknown": > > Windows Activation Technologies (v. 7.1.7600.16395) > VLC Web Plugin v. 2.1.3.0 as discussed here at length > Adobe Shockwave for Director v. 12.1.6.156 > Microsoft Office 2010 v.14.0.4730.1010 > Windows Live Photo Gallery v. 15.4.3538.513 > > The last two have been "unknown" for years but the other three are new > additions to the list. uhmm... seems to me that if they're new additions then clearly mozilla hasn't abandoned the plugin check. Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
