Keeping your system is about more than running automatic updates to your OS. It also means keeping applications current - and they plugins they use since those have become a favorite target for exploits.
Plugins like Adobe's Flash Player.
To that end, the crew at Mozilla have come up with a thoughtful tweak to the Firefox 'What's New?' landing page that will help keep future users running the latest (and hopefully most secure) version of the Flash plugin. Any time you upgrade or install Firefox from now a few lines of Javascript code on the first run page check your current Flash version.
A notice like the one above will recommend a prompt update if you're running behind, so it's quite likely that recent upgraders to Snow Leopard are going to see it. Yes, Flash Player is supposed to keep itself updated automatically.
However, plenty of users disable the update feature and it never hurts to offer another reminder just in case.
Tags: adobe-flash-player, firefox, security
