Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension

Washingon Post ^ | 29 May 2009 | Brian Krebs

[paulycy]

I switched to Safari

Me, too, and it is much faster but I have some firefox extensions that I need, and after running awhile Safari seems to hog resources (worse than firefox) and conflict with my graphics program so I'm back to the stable firefox 3 release. I've tried the beta too and will switch when my add-ons are updated.

Haven't tried chrome. Seems like it won't do what firefox does either even if it is fast. Building browsers without add-on capability (just about any program, actually) seem very dumb and limiting IMO.

[LonePalm]

Self Ping for later.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[VeniVidiVici]

Darn! I don’t even have it!

Can I still wail and gnash my teeth in false indignation?

[litehaus]

net frame 3.5 svc pk1 ???-—That one?

[aimhigh]

Bump for later. How do we turn it off? (plain English please)

[antiRepublicrat]

Firefox extensions can be manually removed. Googling “firefox manually remove add-on” or “extension” will get you tons of how-tos.

[Still Thinking]

Sometimes those people really piss me off.

[ShadowAce]

Firefox extensions can be manually removed.

Yes they can, bu this article explains that with this particular extension, it requires registry editing.

Not a good thing.

[LadyPilgrim]

I turned of automatic update after it crashed this Vista, last Jan.
I also have had a problem with, Firefox....could be connected, I suppose.

[sionnsar]

I’ve had trouble with Firefox freezing for a few seconds at a time while pages are loading and now I wonder if these two things are connected?

Same problem, but on both Linux and Windows machines so I suspect not.

[calex59]

I turned off my automatic update after last year on April 14, when that a Windows update on one of our computers interrupted the functioning of our tax preparation software. (we are a CPA firm). Intuit fixed the problem on the computer, and subsequently let us know that the update was also reported to be interfering with Quickbooks. The timing of the

Smart. As an ex IT person(retired)I have never enabled automatic updates. I always make it ask me what I want to install. I recently had problems with SP3 for XP. It works ok on my roll your own computer but causes no end of problems on my Dell. I understand from some other Dell owners that it has caused problems with their machines also. Bottom line: Don't trust updates!

[calex59]

Me, too, and it is much faster but I have some firefox extensions that I need, and after running awhile Safari seems to hog resources (worse than firefox) and conflict with my graphics program so I'm back to the stable firefox 3 release. I've tried the beta too and will switch when my add-ons are updated.

Not only that, but if you are using windows(which I assume you are) and you use Netflix instant viewing capability, Netflix doesn't recognize Safari except on Apple machines. Won't allow you to watch movies on Safari if you are using windows, so I went back(actually never really left)to Firefox, which I have never had any problems with.

[FRForever]

> My OS has been slowly falling apart ever since I had to install IE7.

My OS has been slowly falling apart ever since I had to install Windows.

There, fixed it for you. :)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Click “Tools” and then “Add-ons”. It’s there listed as “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant” and it’s version 1.0. There is a disable button. Click it, and restart the browser. Now it’s disabled.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Google Chrome hogs resources too. I used it for about a month and I never noticed it was any faster than any of the other browsers I’ve used.

[raybbr]

Click “Tools” and then “Add-ons”. It’s there listed as “Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant” and it’s version 1.0. There is a disable button. Click it, and restart the browser. Now it’s disabled.<

Thanks. I found it. It's in the "Extension" tab and have disabled it.

I just checked on this PC and noticed there are no Windows extensions. Then I realized it's Linux Mint. D'oh!