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 and report the version as undetectable.
-Our technique of last resort is to investigate custom hacks per-plugin to dig up version-related details. This tends to involve things like embedding a sample instance of the plugin and probing it for capabilities and information. But, this can doesn't always work and can be very inefficient when it does. And, in the case of plugins with known vulnerabilities, can expose the user to the very crashes and security problems that the plugin detection is meant to warn about.
+Our technique of last resort is to investigate custom hacks per-plugin to dig up version-related details. This tends to involve things like embedding a sample instance of the plugin and probing it for capabilities and information. But, this doesn't always work and can be very inefficient when it does. And, in the case of plugins with known vulnerabilities, can expose the user to the very crashes and security problems that the plugin detection is meant to warn about.
 On the bright side, Firefox 3.6 and above ''does'' offer a version property in