Using Secunia PSI will automatically detect
an update all browser and browser extensions and plug-ins,
but you should still set all these to automatically update,
and I'll show you how to do that now.
Let's look at Firefox to start with.
Let's just simply check for updates and that's done here.
On the question mark and about Firefox.
When you click on there, this will check
to see whether you have the latest updates,
and you can see here Firefox is up-to-date.
This is the latest Firefox. If it was not,
it would start to download the latest version
and then ask you if you want to install it.
We also want to make sure that it's set to automatically update.
If we go here, Options,
and then to Advanced, and then on the Update tab,
here we can set this to automatically install updates.
This is recommended.
I would also set this to warn me
if this will disable any of my add-ons
because if you do, do updates some of your add-ons
may be disabled, because they haven't been updated
to work with the latest version.
I mean, obviously it's up to you if you want to change these,
to check for updates,
but you should definitely at least be checking for updates
and then making a decision yourself.
This is the recommended setting.
If you want to look at the previous history of updates,
you would click on here.
You can see here we have a fix
and you can look at the details of fix as well,
tell you what is actually fixed, so that's useful.
We also want to make sure that the extensions are up-to-date.
That's very important. We need to go here again,
Add-ons and then on Plugins or Extensions, you can see here,
got this drop down box and we want
Update add-ons automatically.
Here as well, we can check for updates,
we can click here and check for updates as well.
So if we click on here, check for updates.
And it’s checking,
no updates are found in this case, but if there were some updates,
they would appear here and they would update.
Very important to make sure that this is updating as well.
Now, there are some other things that update
to do with malware and phishing,
but these are
automatically set to update, so we're not going to change those
because they're good for security.
Later when we consider privacy,
we will look at those options as well.
Now, if you're looking for more detailed information
on Firefox, you can type in about..
support
and you'll be presented with this page.
On here, you can find a lot more detailed information
on the configuration.
For example,
if you're interested in the details of the plugins,
if you click on the plugins link,
you can see more details here.
There is also plugin check which is external,
which does a check on your plugins to see whether they need to be updated.
It does the same as well.
This check does here by checking like that.
If you're having problems with Firefox, you can start it in safe mode.
If you come down here,
click on Restart with Add-ons Disabled
and restart it with the add-ons disabled.
You can also go to about.config
or about..config,
and you'll be prompted here, are you sure that you want to continue
because changing these settings here
could have detrimental effect on the browser,
and it's true.
Don't change any of these things apart from where I'm instructing you to.
Here you can see all of the background configuration settings
that you can change.