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= What to do? = | = What to do? = | ||
== short term == | |||
# grass roots campaign and PR to get users' plugins upgraded - up your plugin | # grass roots campaign and PR to get users' plugins upgraded - up your plugin | ||
# maybe something that would engage the 8 million download day participants to update their plugins, and help friends and familly to update too. | |||
# create a catalog of all high visibility pages on mozilla.com/org sumo, google start page snippets and see if we get some basic content about the issue and recommendations for users. | |||
# pressure plugin vendors to upgrade users faster | == mid term: end of 09q3? == | ||
Help reduce bandwidth costs for plugin vendors to do more agressive updating of their users, or help to host the updates. | |||
# make progress on morgamic's plan to build some better backend infrastructure for tracking required plugin versions, and syndicating plugin updating content. See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Plugins:PluginCheck and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465898 | |||
# pressure plugin vendors to upgrade users faster. Help reduce bandwidth costs for plugin vendors to do more agressive updating of their users, or help to host the updates. meeting with adobe on 8/11 to talk about his among other securty related topics. | |||
== longer term == | |||
# active plugin blocking for old versions? | # active plugin blocking for old versions? this strategy hasn't worked so far and many users seem to be resistant. see long discussion in : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430826 starting around comment 72 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430826#c72 | ||
this strategy hasn't worked so far and many users seem to be resistant. see long discussion in : https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430826 starting around comment 72 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=430826#c72 | |||
# fix our plugin migration code for a better upgrade experience - fx 3. | # fix our plugin migration code for a better upgrade experience - fx 3.6/7? | ||
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# study user experience problems and improve pop-up blocking again | # study user experience problems and improve pop-up blocking again | ||