How do you check to see if your plugins are up to date?
In firefox 50.0, how do you check to see if your plugins are up to date?
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Hi !
You can check to see if your plug-ins are up to date here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
(that option is no longer in 3-bar menu > Add-ons > Plug-ins, as Firefox will stop supporting NPAPI plug-ins some time soon)
Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?
soundwave said
Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?
You can check all plug-ins there ! (I should have mentioned that, sorry !)
soundwave said
Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?
Firefox doesn't use any Plugins that aren't NPAPI, although many aren't visibly labeled as such.
NPAPI = Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface Netscape created Mozilla as an open source arm of Netscape Communications Corporation in 1998.
But when I go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ several of my plugins are not shown there. Specifically: Primetime CDM, OpenH264, and Widevine CDM
soundwave said
But when I go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ several of my plugins are not shown there. Specifically: Primetime CDM, OpenH264, and Widevine CDM
The Plugin Check page is just a website, and Firefox does not advertise to websites that you have those three plugins. Firefox should keep them up-to-date, if there are any updates, as part of the related features.
Let's compare: when I open the about:plugins page -- type or paste that internal "address" in the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it -- I get these version numbers:
OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
Version: 1.6
Primetime Content Decryption Module provided by Adobe Systems, Incorporated
Version: 17
Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.
Version: 1.4.8.903
But I don't know how to find out if those are the latest versions...