
Microsoft is really making it hard not to distrust them, aren't they? We already
talked about Mono and Moonlight this weekend, and now we're notified of something else. Apparently, the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1, released earlier this year, installs a Firefox extension which could not be uninstalled easily (registry hacking was needed). To make matters worse, this extension came with a pretty big security hole (at least, that's what everyone says). A newer version of this extension has been pushed out in May, which can be uninstalled the proper way. As it turns out, Firefox apparently has a limitation in that extensions installed at the machine level (instead of the user level) cannot be uninstalled from within the extensions GUI.
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2008-12-13
This must be the plugin that got installed when I wanted to try VS2008 Express. While at it, the installer hosed all of my Firefox configuration resetting back to defaults. Not so nice.