Mozilla said that Firefox's check for outdated editions of Adobe's Flash Player convinced 10 million users to go to Adobe's Web site and grab the latest software in a week.
Mozilla on Wednesday patched 10 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 3.5, all but one ranked critical, as it delivered the first update that automatically checks for outdated versions of the popular Flash Player plug-in.
At the Adobe Max 2008 conference in San Francisco Monday, the company will tout both the changing landscape for Flash, which is becoming more prominent on mobile devices, and mobile alliances with Qualcomm and processor maker ARM.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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Adobe taps ARM, Qualcomm for mobile Flash
Enough Already Apple: Bring Flash to the iPhone
Adobe to offer new tools for UI development
Mozilla patches 10 Firefox 3.5 vulnerabilities
Firefox's Flash check drives 10M to Adobe's download