The plugins update page is almost impossible for a non-techie to use

I'm a power user - I've got over 30 years of computer experience and have worked in education, devlepment circles for a lot of those.
When my Firefox updates page came up as having an out dated Adobe, i clicked on the link and got taken to the add-ons update page. all good so far, large buttons telling us to click here to update vulnerable add-ons - excellent UI design.
Clicked on links for silverlight, vlc, adobe flash, quicktime nad java.
all these links, except for the VLC one took me to a technical change log page where lots of looking and a lot of figuring out eventually got me to the correct page to DOWNLOAD the add-ons. apple, oddly enough for all their boasting on how good their UI and user experience skills are, was the very worst leading you in circles.
If we take security seriously the updates buttons should take users to the DOWNLOADs page as advertised, not a technical pag.e most users have enough trouble clicking one button, littleless two but to wade through tech talk - impossible.
The road taken for updates is effectively undoing the idea of encouraging security. We need to make it easier.
My suggestion - Updates buttons lead to the updates page and those pages should have a whopping great download button. for those of us technically minded a link to tech / changes pages but 95% of all usrers just down care. Hopefully no other adverts with download now will appear and if adobe finally get it through their thick skulls that McCrappy virus checkers are useless resource hogs then we would all be better off.

Hello, the-edmeister [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1037227#answer-666926 said]
''Unfortunately, the vast majority of those providing support here have no influence in this matter, we're "users helping other users" and don't have the "ear" of those in charge of making those changes.''
Unfortunately, definitely true.
thanks

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