Mozilla wants to give users more control over plugins in the Firefox browser, and as a result, plugins will no longer be activated by default -- except Flash.

Firefox 47 also switches all NPAPI plugins, other than Flash, to click-to-activate by default. The whitelist plugin has been expired in the eyes of Mozilla developers for a while now.

Mozilla fixed three critical vulnerabilities and made Flash click-to-activate by default when it released Firefox 55 on Tuesday ...