"For us, anything that others do to help users stay up-to-date is a good thing," said Brad Arkin, Adobe's director for product security and privacy. "Those results have been nothing short of awesome," echoed Johnathan Nightingale, of Mozilla's security team, in an entry on the company's security blog yesterday.Īdobe on Thursday confirmed a spike in traffic to its Flash Player update page, and applauded Mozilla's move. "A typical response rate for this page is around 5%." ![]() "This is a very high response rate," said Baker in a post to her blog. Mozilla said yesterday 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.Ībout a third of the Firefox users who were warned last week that they were running an old, and vulnerable, version of Flash followed the link to update the Adobe software, said Mitchell Baker, the former CEO of Mozilla and current chairman of the Mozilla Foundation. ![]() 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.
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