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   Firefox 26

   Agen G. N. Schmitz

   With the release of version 26 of the [1]Firefox browser, Mozilla has
   implemented a plug-in activation scheme that had been [2]hinted at back
   in September. The new version of the Web browser makes Click to Play
   functionality for Java plug-ins the default behavior, requiring you to
   click a plug-in on a Web page to authorize Java to run. Previously,
   Mozilla had promised to make this the default for all plug-ins save for
   the most recent version of Flash, but it's only Java that gets the
   treatment in Firefox 26. The update also adds support for
   script-generated password fields, improves page load times by not
   decoding images that aren't visible, and fixes the AudioToolbox MP3
   backend for OS X. (Free, 45.5 MB, [3]release notes)

References

   1. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
   2. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/
   3. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/26.0/releasenotes/

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