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Problem with the "check to see if you plugins are up to date" Link in the Add-ons Manager.

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Whenever I try to follow the link I get to sent to

https://www.mozilla.com/en/404

instead of

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

I don't know why this started happening, I only noticed it several minutes ago but I wanted to report it.

Whenever I try to follow the link I get to sent to https://www.mozilla.com/en/404 instead of https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ I don't know why this started happening, I only noticed it several minutes ago but I wanted to report it.

Chosen solution

easy fix; type about:config in the address bar

fiind plugins.update.url

change the value to: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

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Chosen Solution

easy fix; type about:config in the address bar

fiind plugins.update.url

change the value to: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

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Thank you, that fixed it.

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A report in bugzilla was filed. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752161

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Thanks. All fixed. However, I do wonder how the link got changed in the first place.

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This has been fixed on Mozilla's side in Bug# 752232

It tries to use https://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/ and then gave a error instead when redirecting to https://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/

Many Mozilla pages that were on mozilla.com have since been either changed to or is being redirected to mozilla.org and sometimes issues have arisen.

Modified by James