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Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension
hemantm writes "A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser."
I'll take this opportunity to just say... http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php It's like Chome, without the Google.
It was nice of the poster to put this up, for those of us who weren't here the first time and don't have several hours do spend digging through the archives...
"Our goal each year should be to increase the number of goals we set for ourselves!"
yeah and even the people who did used languages that were already invented and copied many ideas from cpm and ran it on processors made by a company who didn't even invent silicon but used molecules that came from a star that wasn't even a first generation star but was made from recycled material from several generations of stars, but even all of THAT doesn't seem quite as old as this "wasn't invented there" slashdot mantra. Yes it wasn't Microsoft that wrote the code, because Microsoft is a business entity. Software is written by people. Can we all get over that yet?
The revolution will not be televised... but it will have a page on Wikipedia
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"RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin" - hard to say how it came, but it has its uninstall button disabled, compalins about not beeing compatible with FF 3-something and this wont resolve by any standard update way.