Mozilla on Tuesday announced a massive change to the way it loads third-party plugins in Firefox. The company plans to enable Click to Play for all versions of all plugins, except the latest release ...

Plugins downloaded for use with Firefox will no longer be activated by default in order to reduce crashes, security problems and hang-ups in the browser. On Tuesday, Benjamin Smedberg, Engineering ...

Mozilla has announced that sometime soon, it will be no longer automatically load any plugins on Firefox except the latest version of Flash, instead utilizing Click ...

Firefox extensions (a.k.a. add-ons) get updated from time to time. As you may know, you can check for updates yourself by clicking Tools, Add-ons, Updates, or just wait for the browser to notify you ...

Mozilla has expanded a service that checks if a browser’s plugins are current to now scan Internet Explorer, Safari Opera and Chrome in addition to its own Firefox. Plugins are small bits of code that ...

Starting with March 7, when Mozilla is scheduled to release Firefox 52, all plugins built on the old NPAPI technology will stop working in Firefox, except for Flash, which Mozilla plans to support for ...

I'm having one hell of a time trying to disable firefox plugins. Quicktime, especially, but also PDF, WMA - everything but Flash. Visit a site with Quicktime and the movie loads and starts playing.