Keep Your Firefox Plugin Up To Date
Certainly, installing plugins will enhance the functionality of your browser. A browser without any plugins installed would not correctly display most of today’s web pages.
Nevertheless, outdated plugins may give you trouble, increasing your risk for attack by malware, viruses, and other security threats, which may interrupt your browsing experience and waste your time. It is always an important task to keep your plugins updated to the most current version.
Firefox is currently offering a web page to check whether your browser’s plugins are up to date. The page will scan all plugins installed on your browser. It provides you with a list of installed plugins with the “update” button right beside the plugin names. In the future, Firefox will update plugins for you. Until then, you should regularly check this page: http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/ and update your Plugins to stay safe.
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Nov 19, 2009 (8:42 AM)
Hmmmm…. I thought that Firefox plug ins are automatically updated!!
Technically there is a difference between Firefox Extensions & Plugins (go menu: Tools > Add-ons). Extensions are addons for Firefox to enhance the functionality, and Plugins are to power the Firefox; such as videos, animation and games. I believe those plugins (RealPlayer plugin, Shockwave Flash, etc) don’t always update automatically. Hope this is useful to you.
You might want to get someone whose native language is English to check things before you publish.
Ya, you are right. My native language is not English, I do let my friend check some of my articles (not all) before I post. Appreciate if you can highlight to me which part of the grammar in this article is not proper, I will make the correction. Thanks.
“A browser without any plugins installed would not correctly display today’s most of the web page” would make more sense as “A browser without any plugins installed would not correctly display most of today’s web pages” or “most of today’s web.”
For the following section, here are two ways that the article would read better to me. I’m not sure whether you meant that the outdated plugin(s) may interrupt browsing and waste your time, or that the plugins themselves would, so I put both ways (in addition to correcting for whether you’re talking about a single hypothetical plugin, or plugins in general).
Nevertheless, outdated pluginS may give you trouble, INCREASING your risk for attack by malware, viruses, and other security threats, WHICH may interrupt your browsing experience and waste your time. It is always an important task to keep your pluginS updated to the most current version.
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Nevertheless, AN outdated plugin may give you trouble– it increaseS your risk for attack by malware, viruses, and other security threats, AND it may interrupt your browsing experience and waste your time. It is always an important task to keep your plugin updated to the most current version.
You might want to change “It provides you a list of plugin with the “update” button stay right beside the plugin name” to “It provides you with a list of installed plugins with the “update” button right beside the plugin names.” The “with” and “installed” just make the meaning clearer, and “stay” doesn’t make any sense there.
I don’t mean to insult or lecture you, but since you asked for a review, I hope this helps.
Hi Jack Vermicelli,
Wow, I didn’t expect your reply & you have done the wonderful job for me. Writing is one of the challenging aspects of my life, especially English is not my native language. When I’m writing, my mind do the direct translation from my native language, and that’s why you find the phrases like “today’s most of the web page” in my article.
Your second correction really give me an idea on how to write “single hypothetical thing” or “things in general”. I will keep that in mind.
This blog give me opportunity to practice & hopefully to polish my writing skill. I really appreciate your review and I have the article changed as per your comment. Once again thanks for your help.