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What is Mozilla Default Plug-in? Should it Set to be disabled or enabled in Firefox ?

Last updated on January 6, 2011 By Venkat

Mozilla Default Plug-in which will be installed along with Firefox, you will find about this plug-in by typing about:plugins in address bar in Firefox.Wondering what this plug-in actually do, should this plug-in be enabled or disabled in Firefox, here is the explanation.

Mozilla Default Plug-in

Mozilla Default Plug-in is actually plug-in Finder which will be activated and shows yellow information bar on page that requires to load missing plug-ins and asks users to install them.

yellow information bar prompts to install missing plugins

For example if you don’t have Flash player plug-in installed for Firefox and when you visit YouTube or other flash content pages Mozilla Default Plug-in triggers and show information bar about “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page “.

You can enable or disable Mozilla Default Plug-in from Tools>Add-ons>Plug-ins and by selecting the plug-in.

Mozilla Default Plug-in Add-ons Manager in Firefox

By default Mozilla Default Plug-in comes enabled in Firefox so you should leave it as it is.I also have not found any significant importance to this plug-in despite this been disabled Firefox still shows information bar to install missing plug-ins.

Update : Mozilla default Plug-in removed in Firefox 4 or does not exists by default.

Filed Under: tips and tricks Tagged With: disable, disable Mozilla Default Plug-in, enable, enable Mozilla Default Plug-in, Mozilla Default Plug-in

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