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Find vulnerable plugins in Firefox browser and make it safe?

How to find vulnerable plugins in Firefox browser and make it safe?All outdated plugins in your browser are not necessarily dangerous and may not harm your PC, however most outdated plugins are prone to attacks.  One of the good examples of attacks done was by outdated java plugins in both Windows and Mac operating systems.

Many users don't update their plugins in their browsers as frequently as needed, hackers use their ready made exploits which are made specific for an outdated plugin, If  your plugin is updated, developers would already  fixed that vulnerability, else your data and PC is in risk.

Is there an easy way of checking updates for each of your plugin at a single place? Yes, Firefox has come up with a plugin checker, which displays all plugins and their status and action to be taken.Each plugin is displayed with status and Action section Update button in three different colors

  • Red - update immediately (high risk)
  • Yellow - good to upgrade (medium risk)
  • Green- good, you have the latest or safest version of the plugin You may just click on the update button and it leads to plugin's home page. cool way of making your browser secure isn't it?

Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser

Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser

Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser - How to uninstall or Remove Babylon uTorrent toolbar from firefox browser?

When you install torrent clients like uTorrent and other programs, lot of toolbars start adding to your browser. This  makes your firefox browser slower and heavy to Load.

To remove babylon or utorrent toolbars from your firefox browser, You do not need any uninstallers.

Firefox browser has a add-on manager which shall take care of these toolbars which you no more need and like to remove or uninstall.

You can clean these toolbars from your Firefox browser by just following the below steps using the firefox add-on manager.

1) Go to Options in Firefox browser


Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser

2) Click on Manage add-ons
Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser


3) Click remove on each tool bar like babylon or utorrent to remove them from your firefox browser. Once you click on remove and restart the browser, your firefox browser is now clean from babylon or utorrent toolbars. Hope this helps you in removing Babylon or uTorrent toolbar from your firefox browser

Babylon uTorrent toolbar firefox browser