Safari 5.1.7 can be downloaded from Apple's website. The browser automatically queries the blocklist and notifies users before disabling the targeted plug-in.Īccording to Mozilla, it's working with Adobe on a fix to Reader but will keep the plug-in on its blocklist until one is available. Mozilla maintains a blocklist for extensions or plug-ins that cause significant security or performance issues in Firefox.
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On Friday, Mozilla added the Adobe Reader plug-in to its Firefox blocklist, citing compatibility problems that resulted in blank pages appearing when users clicked on a link to a PDF document. Java Web Start is an Oracle technology that lets users single-click launch a Java app from within a browser without first downloading the app to the machine.Īnd Apple wasn't the only browser maker to recently block Adobe software. "As a security hardening measure, the Java browser plug-in and Java Web Start are deactivated if they are unused for 35 days," Apple said at the time. Apple took the step because of Flashback, a malware family that used a Java vulnerability to infect hundreds of thousands of Macs in a spree that still continues. Neither Windows Vista or Windows 7 included a preinstalled version of Adobe's software.īlocking Flash was the second such move by Apple in a month: On April 12, the company issued an OS X update that disabled automatic execution of Java applets by the Java browser plug-in. Microsoft last distributed Flash with the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP.
"This update presents the option to install an updated version of Flash Player from the Adobe website."Īpple stopped bundling Flash Player with OS X in the fall of 2010, but users have been free to download and install the plug-in on their own. "This update disables Adobe Flash Player if it is older than 10.1.102.64 by moving its files to a new directory," Apple's advisory stated Wednesday.
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