Plug-ins in Firefox are always poses risk because they are build by 3rd party developers will not updated automatically . Outdated plug-ins can cause Firefox to crash, stability problems and also security risk of an attacker to run malicious code in your computer.
Mozilla launched Plugin check with which you can know the status of all installed plug-ins in Firefox. Vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Plug-in woke Mozilla up It’s true that out dated popular Adobe flash player plug-in can cause major risk to Firefox users, Firefox started to Warn users using old version of Flash player plug-in for Firefox to download updated version of plug-in for Mozilla Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 . This move from Mozilla really successful as more than 10 million users downloaded the latest flash player version from adobe website. Check the status of Popular plug-ins Mozilla launched full Plug-in check page which shows the update status for all plug-ins in your Firefox browser. Here You can see You will see Research as status for certain plug-ins for those plug-in version was not detected. Clicking on research will direct to Google with the query for current version of particular plug-in name. The upcoming version Firefox 3.6 which avoids going to plug-in check page as it detects and shows outdated plug-in automatically. This is good move by Mozilla should have been implemented by them much before , because Mozilla claims that 30% of the crashes to Firefox is mainly due to out dated plug-ins. Related articles 
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