Mozilla threw on this Tuesday a new service to help to maintain updated the Firefox plugins. The verification is made through a page that shows details of each one of them and suggests corrections in case of incompatibility.

According to InformationWeek, the service Mozilla Plugin Check exhibits details on some of the installed plugins in the access moment, verifying if they are updated or not. In this last case, the user receives an updating suggestion. For the time being only 15 plugins can be verified, but the plan is to increase the covering.

The project expands an initiative thrown in the month passed by Mozilla on the safety of its navigator. In the occasion, the company asked to their customers help to immunize the community online against an imminent malwares infection that explore vulnerabilities in plugins; the main concern was the Flash plugin from the Adobe.

A report presented by the company says that 99% of the Firefox navigators in activity possess the plugin of the Flash, though only 25% of them are updated. That represents a significant threat because the software Marinates Flash, as well as Acrobat Reader, is frequently virtual criminals’ objective. Mozilla still affirms that 30% of all the copies of installed Firefox present flaws because of plugins made by other companies.

Via: Information Week.