Mozilla: New Firefox Settings on Plugin Auto-Running After Java Issues

By default, Firefox will, in future, only automatically run the content of the most recent version of Flash The Mozilla announcement comes after Oracle's recent troubles securing Java, which recently culminated in Oracle's Java defences falling to a security researcher. That researcher recommended "Click to Play" as a more appropriate defence against drive-by style attacks that exploited plugins such as Java.

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