Click To Play: The Next Step For Firefox

The article reviews Firefox's Click to Play feature and related plugin-management tools introduced and updated around Firefox 14–17: Click to Play is enabled by default for vulnerable plugins in Firefox 17, there are UI improvements (a URL-bar icon and site-level enable/disable options), and a plugin update check tool exists. It also highlights limitations—Click to Play only targets known vulnerable/outdated plugin versions and will not defend against zero-day exploits or plugins unknown to Mozilla—and mentions the author's experience of intermittent failures where the feature stopped working.