Firefox is an open source browser by Mozilla, which gained fame mainly because of its amazing collection of Plugins and addons. Firefox plugin development is a famous practice. The main reason behind its popularity is that Firefox plug-in development creates a plug and play environment, enabling users adding the respective plug-ins.

However, Firefox is losing its position over Chrome. After Google totally revamped its browser, Chrome has attained a numero uno position. Besides, Firefox seems to be battling with a few problems. For example, recently, Jorge Villalobos, Mozilla’s Add-ons Developer Relations Lead urged users, who run Firefox on Windows, in Firefox’s official blog to update the plugins as soon as they encounter the update plugin message. This covers the old versions of Adobe Reader, Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash.

Are you a Firefox user, encountering a message to update your plug-in on the browser top each time you start to launch a website? If yes, there is nothing to worry unless you visit the Firefox website and update your plug-ins; else, you are vulnerable.  That’s presumably why Mozilla has decided to nag users with notifications about their out-of-date plug-ins.

I find the repeated reminders as annoying as anyone would; and I am sure Firefox is aware of the fact that annoying reminders might take away its popularity and reduce its user base, but this seems like a necessary evil.

However, Mozilla did not share the reason for such desperate urge. Does this mean that the users are vulnerable to attacks? Or is it something else?

Besides, I personally like the way Chrome handle things. It silently updates all the necessary plug-ins in the browser. It is fast and doesn’t annoy users with unnecessary stuff. It compact and sleek and offers users more browsing space than any other browser.