The Mozilla Firefox browser is used by about 30% of all Internet users, and the company is seriously concerned about better safety users for many years.
To improve the stability, security and performance of Firefox, Mozilla has announced 2013 that it plans to allow the choice «Click to Play» in upcoming versions of Firefox, which will block the most vulnerable plugins like Java by default.
"Plugins are an important source of poor performance, malfunction and vulnerabilities," a Mozilla spokesman said.
The "Click to play" feature prevents it automatic εκτέλεση όλων των plugins, αν και αυτό το χαρακτηριστικό ήταν ενοχλητικό για κάποιους users, so that there is no default lock for every plugin, Mozilla has announced that it will maintain a list of approved plugins.
Plugin developers can apply to include their application in the list of allowed. The developer has to submit his plugins using a template in Bugzilla and the application is submitted by 31 in March 2014, where he will be reviewed by Mozilla.
The most widely used web browser, the Google Chrome εργάζεται επίσης προς αυτή την κατεύθυνση και τον περασμένο Ιανουάριο μπλόκαρε όλα τα plugins NPAPI εκτός από το Silverlight, το Unity, το Google Earth και το Facebook Video.
Source: iguru.gr
