Mozilla in four weeks will bar plug-ins built using a decades-old technology from Firefox, ending a years-long process designed to make the browser more secure. The single exception to the ban: ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

Even for a Defensive Computing guy, the topic of the latest and greatest version of Adobe’s Flash player plugin is pretty boring. I thought, I’d left it in the rear view mirror. My previous suggestion ...

Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

Two of my sysadmins tell me that if Google Chrome is installed on Windows 8.1 that will update the Adobe Flash on the system (in IE and Firefox). This does not sound accurate. Then for win 8 and later ...

Adobe Systems has fixed more than 30 vulnerabilities in its Flash Player and Digital Editions products, most of which could be exploited to remotely install malware on computers. The bulk of the flaws ...

Mozilla will stop supporting most browser plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016 . But for Linux users, that won’t make a major difference for one of the biggest ...