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Earlier this month Mozilla announced that beginning with the Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 security and stability updates, Mozilla will warn users if their version of the Adobe Flash Player plugin is out of date. Old versions of plugins can cause crashes and other stability problems, and can also be a significant security risk. Mozilla [...]

Last week Ken Kovash, Mozilla’s manager of metrics, wrote a blog post on Mozilla’s metrics blog analyzing the results of Mozilla’s campaign to warn users if their version of Adobe Flash is out of date. Ken noted that in just one week 10,000,000 people have clicked on the “flash update” link below.

Sean Michael Kerner from [...]

Last week Mozilla’s security program manager, Brandon Sterne, posted an update to Mozilla’s plan for its Content Security Policy (CSP).  The news has gotten positive attention in the press and has resulted in more than 10 articles since the post.
The Register’s Dan Goodin comments on CSP’s potential. He says, “Still, CSP is worth watching – [...]

On Oct 20, Mozilla joined several organizations in endorsing the Web Open Font Format (WOFF) specification.  We also announced the intent to implement the specification starting in Firefox 3.6.
Wired’s Michael Calore on the WOFF spec:
This is a significant step forward not only for the emerging open format, but also for type on the web in [...]

On Oct 30, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1.  Then on November 11, Mozilla released Firefox 3.6 Beta 2.
These betas of Firefox 3.6 introduced several new features:

Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to [...]

Current Firefox 3.6 pre-beta 1 nightlies now feature a full screen option for videos embedded using the <video> tag like the natively supported Theora encoders.

Just right click on the video and select Full Screen. While on full screen, press Esc to return to the normal view.