Plugin Check page not working ?

I've been wanting to check to see if any of my plugins - specifically the one for my Slingbox - need to be updated. Every time I try, however, the Plugin Check page returns with the message "Plugin Finding Service Error We've encountered an error. Please try your request again later."
Is this just me, or is this a known system issue ?

I had the same problem and today I just tried to remove the sharp (#) at the end of my URL and it worked again.
Its quite unlikely that this was the problem as I'm not able to reproduce it but you might want to give it a try anyway.
[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ Plugincheck]

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There's a couple of things to try, since this is an old system.
1 -- disable hardware acceleration in Flash Player, if enabled.
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c) Scroll down the drop down list and left-click on "Settings."
d) If you see a check in the small box next to "...hardware acceleration," click on it to remove it.
e) Save your setting change, close out your browser, open it again, and try watching a video to see if it stutters.
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No problem, saneman. Looks like you are very "sane" after all. :D The problem is on Mozilla's side (I confirmed with a developer) and they are having an issue with the plugin check page finding the correct version number. It seems after every Java update they have this problem.
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No problem, saneman. Looks like you are very "sane" after all. :D The problem is on Mozilla's side (I confirmed with a developer) and they are having an issue with the plugin check page finding the correct version number. It seems after every Java update they have this problem.
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Hello gspal, for me it is better to upgrade to latest firefox version (28.0), and forget the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985968 Bug 985968], it is only the Java plugin with the error when you check with [https://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/ plugincheck], we all have the same issue till the bug is fixed. But think, that 26.0 firefox is vulnerable now and in the newest firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&f1=target_milestone&f2=cf_status_firefox28&f3=target_milestone&j_top=OR&o1=anywords&o2=anywords&o3=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=FIXED&v1=mozilla28&v2=fixed%2Cverified&v3=Firefox%2028&order=bug_id&limit=0 most bugs from 26 and 27 versions are fixed].
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The plugin check page does list something called 'Shockwave Flash." I went to the Adobe site and downloaded and installed the latest version of Adobe Flash but it still does not show up on the plugin check page. I don't see how Adobe Flash can be crashing in Firefox when Firefox doesn't even know that it's installed.

Your System Details List shows the Shockwave Flash 12.0 r0 plugin as installed, so you appear to have the Flash plugin installed.
You can check the version of the current Flash player here:
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*http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
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*Do NOT click the Reset button on the Safe Mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes

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In the past couple of weeks, I have had several instances of my Adobe Flash Plugin crashing. I am just figuring out that I need to keep my plugins updated. I can't figure out how to '''manually''' get to the plugin check page in order to determine the status of my third-party plugins. I have come across a link that says: visit Mozilla's '''Plugin Check''' page. But, being able to get there manually would be very helpful.
Thank you very much.

Create a bookmark?
* http://www.mozilla.com/plugincheck/

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I don't like being bothered with pages I am uninterested in opening automatically. It's not a service, it's an annoyance. I want to open my home page, not pages of ANY kind that your browser wishes to open for me. Adblocker doesn't seem to work on this plugin checking page. I do not approve of your browser hijacking my system-I decide what pages get opened, not firefox.

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Mozilla,
I have used Firefox FAITHFULLY for the past 10 years. I chose Firefox over IE specifically because it has ALWAYS been customizable. While IE (and microsoft) has always been rigid, and forced the user to do things their way, Firefox has been the opposite:
Want a page to look a certain way, there's a plugin for that.
Want more security while you browse, there's a setting for that.
Want to risk it all and have no security, there's a setting for that too!
I have dabbled with other browsers too. Google's Chrome browser has a few things that I like... including the option to save a link to a page as an "app" (creating a fullscreen window for just that page). BUT I chose to completely uninstall chrome when I found out that you cannot disable their certificate security checks.
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It seems that recently, the folks at Mozilla have decided to force a "plugin-check" page on all of us. At first, I played nice. I updated my java and flash plugins as it suggested, and it still pops up. I then googled "FOR HOURS" on how to disable the feature. I went to about:config and changed all the Boolean variables I could find, and still the page pops up.
Then I noticed something in doing further research. It seems that in doing hours of research (WHICH I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO) I have seen posts from lots of others that have also done hours of research, and they are getting the same answers from mozilla:
"You need to do this"
"You need to change this setting"
"Please tell us what plugin is causing the problem"
if they knew that they wouldn't be asking in the first place
"If you don't help us, we can't help you"
etc...
The one thing mozilla hasn't said is "Woops... sorry, we forgot to give you the OPTION to do what YOU WANT"
I am very happy that there is an OPTION to make my browsing safer. Were I a casual user that just went to facebook, netflix and the like I would probably be very satisfied. Here's the thing, a great deal of casual users just go with what they have... like IE. People that know more about computing, and henceforth like to change things and do what they like probably use firefox... and firefox is cutting them off. I don't use Acrobat, I use foxit (unrecognized plugin). I use several extensions that HELP ME the way I WANT TO BE HELPED. They work just fine for what I NEED, and I don't want to change them.
I have trouble seeing items on the screen so I use the nosquint plugin... I don't know if it's recognized or not... and I don't care, it works better FOR ME than any of the others that I have tried. Yet, just like Google, and Microsoft before it, Mozilla is attempting to "make me safe" by controlling me. This is unacceptable, I CHOOSE to use firefox because I WANT THE CHOICE to browse MY WAY.
People have come here, and on other sites asking "HOW DO I DISABLE this screen" and, as shown above, the answer is to try and "trick" firefox into submission. The "trick" doesn't work, and both the person that needs help, and the person trying to help (i know... not a mozilla employee) gets frustrated.
The point is, we shouldn't have to "trick" or force firefox to submit to our will by hours of trial and error. We didn't ask for the page to show up in the first place. I'm quite sure there are SOME that are happy it is there, but mozilla needs to realize that there are SOME that are not, and GIVE THEM THE CHOICE do disable an unwanted "option".
In short... Please find a way for us to disable, IN ITS ENTIRETY the outdated plugin check web page that pops up EVERY TIME I start firefox. I know some of my plugins are out of date, and I know some are not recognized. I like it that way. If I wanted to have ZERO control over what MY pc does, I would switch to windows 8 (which doesn't have a metro app for firefox yet)

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