Using Secunia PSI will automatically detect 2
an update all browser and browser extensions and plug-ins, 3
but you should still set all these to automatically update, 4
and I'll show you how to do that now. 5
Let's look at Firefox to start with. 6
Let's just simply check for updates and that's done here. 7
On the question mark and about Firefox. 8
When you click on there, this will check 9
to see whether you have the latest updates, 10
and you can see here Firefox is up-to-date. 11
This is the latest Firefox. If it was not, 12
it would start to download the latest version 13
and then ask you if you want to install it. 14
We also want to make sure that it's set to automatically update. 15
If we go here, Options, 16
and then to Advanced, and then on the Update tab, 17
here we can set this to automatically install updates. 18
This is recommended. 19
I would also set this to warn me 20
if this will disable any of my add-ons 21
because if you do, do updates some of your add-ons 22
may be disabled, because they haven't been updated 23
to work with the latest version. 24
I mean, obviously it's up to you if you want to change these, 25
to check for updates, 26
but you should definitely at least be checking for updates 27
and then making a decision yourself. 28
This is the recommended setting. 29
If you want to look at the previous history of updates, 30
you would click on here. 31
You can see here we have a fix 32
and you can look at the details of fix as well, 33
tell you what is actually fixed, so that's useful. 34
We also want to make sure that the extensions are up-to-date. 35
That's very important. We need to go here again, 36
Add-ons and then on Plugins or Extensions, you can see here, 37
got this drop down box and we want 38
Update add-ons automatically. 39
Here as well, we can check for updates, 40
we can click here and check for updates as well. 41
So if we click on here, check for updates. 42
And it’s checking, 43
no updates are found in this case, but if there were some updates, 44
they would appear here and they would update. 45
Very important to make sure that this is updating as well. 46
Now, there are some other things that update 47
to do with malware and phishing, 48
but these are 49
automatically set to update, so we're not going to change those 50
because they're good for security. 51
Later when we consider privacy, 52
we will look at those options as well. 53
Now, if you're looking for more detailed information 54
on Firefox, you can type in about.. 55
support 56
and you'll be presented with this page. 57
On here, you can find a lot more detailed information 58
on the configuration. 59
For example, 60
if you're interested in the details of the plugins, 61
if you click on the plugins link, 62
you can see more details here. 63
There is also plugin check which is external, 64
which does a check on your plugins to see whether they need to be updated. 65
It does the same as well. 66
This check does here by checking like that. 67
If you're having problems with Firefox, you can start it in safe mode. 68
If you come down here, 69
click on Restart with Add-ons Disabled 70
and restart it with the add-ons disabled. 71
You can also go to about.config 72
or about..config, 73
and you'll be prompted here, are you sure that you want to continue 74
because changing these settings here 75
could have detrimental effect on the browser, 76
and it's true. 77
Don't change any of these things apart from where I'm instructing you to. 78
Here you can see all of the background configuration settings 79
that you can change.