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How do you check to see if your plugins are up to date?

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In firefox 50.0, how do you check to see if your plugins are up to date?

In firefox 50.0, how do you check to see if your plugins are up to date?

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Hi  !
You can check to see if your plug-ins are up to date here:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
(that option is no longer in 3-bar menu > Add-ons > Plug-ins,   as Firefox will stop supporting NPAPI plug-ins some time soon)

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Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?

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soundwave said

Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?

You can check   all   plug-ins there   ! (I should have mentioned that,   sorry   !)

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soundwave said

Ok, but how do I see if the non-npapi plugins are up to date?

Firefox doesn't use any Plugins that aren't NPAPI, although many aren't visibly labeled as such.

NPAPI = Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface Netscape created Mozilla as an open source arm of Netscape Communications Corporation in 1998.

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But when I go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ several of my plugins are not shown there. Specifically: Primetime CDM, OpenH264, and Widevine CDM

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soundwave said

But when I go to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ several of my plugins are not shown there. Specifically: Primetime CDM, OpenH264, and Widevine CDM

The Plugin Check page is just a website, and Firefox does not advertise to websites that you have those three plugins. Firefox should keep them up-to-date, if there are any updates, as part of the related features.

Let's compare: when I open the about:plugins page -- type or paste that internal "address" in the address bar and press Enter/Return to load it -- I get these version numbers:

OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.

   Version: 1.6

Primetime Content Decryption Module provided by Adobe Systems, Incorporated

   Version: 17

Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.

   Version: 1.4.8.903

But I don't know how to find out if those are the latest versions...