Firefox 3.5.3 update introduces Flash updates notification
Posted by Percy Cabello on September 10th, 2009 • Tags:
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Mozilla has released a new update for the Firefox 3.5. Firefox 3.5.3 introduces a number of big fixes including patches for three critical security vulnerabilities.

Also new in this release is a plugin update verification currenlty limited to Flash, Adobe’s ubiquituous and generally outdated plugin. On first run, Firefox will verify the current version of Flash and will suggest and link the update so you can take action.

FlashWarning

Unfortunately, it doesn’t perform the update itself, but you have to visit Adobe’s site, and manually download, locate, install and restart Firefox for the new version to work.

However, this is just the first step to improving plugins updating. As Mozilla’s Christopher Blizzard explains, other plugins will soon be included and a page to check all of them at once will be made available later this month, the current Firefox plugin update service will be fixed to handle this. Firefox 3.6 will also include the ability to check for new plugin versions and notify if there are.

Firefox proposed plugin check page

To get the update, select Check for Updates… in the Help menu, or wait to be prompted within the next 48 hours.

Comments
Stan said on September 11, 2009, 4:52 am:

“…introduces a number of big fixes…”

Bug fixes?

n said on September 11, 2009, 10:21 pm:

So, is this able to detect WMP plugin+old codecs (like ffdshow) case in future?

Ruslan_Y said on September 14, 2009, 6:54 am:

I’d better prefer to get plugin notification in the standard “tools” – “extensions” window. Without any kind of external web page with the plugin list. Just the same window as the extension list/updates and the additional checkbox in configuration like a “check plugin updates automatically”.

GR said on September 14, 2009, 10:26 am:

Ok, I upgrade firefox to 3.5.3 on F11 and try a flash page and it says I need to d/l flash. So I click the link and it goes to Adobe website where I select YUM d/l for Linux. It then shows 4.3kb d/l of adobe-release-i386-1.0.1.noarch.rpm and it installs. So now I go to another flash page and it still says I need to d/l flash.
????

Mike said on September 16, 2009, 9:17 am:

Unfortunately, it seems to think I need to update even though I have the latest installed.

sev said on September 19, 2009, 8:20 am:

seems like the latest flash player is not compatible with firefox 3.5.3

Stephen said on September 21, 2009, 6:24 am:

The slow startup bug is NOT fixed in 3.5.3.

I was experiencing load times of 90+ seconds running 3.5.3. I cleaned out my temp folders and voila! Loads in ~10 seconds.

So whatever you guys *think* you fixed, this bug wasn’t one of them.

Javascript is also intolerably slow.

Loz said on September 29, 2009, 4:26 pm:

I’m having the same problem. OK in IE8, but FF3.5.3 not compatiable with adobe’s latest version. need patch… quick!

fred said on October 9, 2009, 10:44 pm:

couldn’t care less about plugins! it doesn’t really matter if all your users dump firefox cause it take 9 minutes to load! I have done all the mentioned suggestions like clearing cache and files and the best i now have is a load time of 5 minutes. And finally when it loads it seams to stall every so often. I downloaded opera today might give them a go.