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Securing Firefox
Security has been one of the strongest reasons for people to switch to Firefox. By prohibiting the
most unsafe types of content from playing in Firefox, and by warning you of potentially dangerous
or annoying content before displaying it, Firefox has become the Web browser of choice for many
Mozilla Plug-ins
Many plug-ins are available for use in most Linux versions of Mozilla. To see a list of plug-ins associated
with the browser, enter about:plugins in the address box where you normally type URLs.
Go to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/plugins/ to download the most popular plugins,
and look at plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html for links to less-popular plug-ins. Some of
the most popular plug-ins are:
Adobe Acrobat Plug-in (www.adobe.com/support/downloads)??”Displays files in
Adobe Systems??™ Portable Document Format (PDF).
DjVuLibre Plug-in (djvu.sourceforge.net)??”Displays images in DjVu image compression
technology. This plug-in is from AT&T.
RealOne Player (www.real.com/linux)??”Plays Real Audio and Video content. Real
Networks and its open source Helix project have recently made RealVideo 10 codecs
available to the Linux community.
Adobe Flash Player (www.adobe.com)??”Displays multimedia vector graphics and animation.
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