To improve security and cut crashes, Firefox will block plug-ins
including Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Reader, Apple's QuickTime and
Oracle's Java, Mozilla said.
Only the newest version of Adobe Systems' Flash Player will be run by
default, said Michael Coates, Mozilla's director of security assurance,
in a blog post yesterday.
Plug-ins extend a browser's ability to run software or handle different
media and file formats, but that extra ability opens new avenues for
attack. They've been a staple of Web development for years, but browser
makers are working hard to reproduce their abilities directly with Web
standards that don't require plug-ins.
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