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MS Issued a Fix For Its Unwanted FireFox Extension
As we discussed last February, and again a few days ago after the Washington Post noticed, Microsoft installed without permission a hard-to-remove Firefox extension along with a service pack for .NET Framework 3.5. Reader Pigskin-Referee lets us know that, as it turns out, Microsoft issued a fix a month ago; details here.
You did give permission, dipshit. They offered you the release notes and asked if you wanted to continue the install.
So, I'm a "wingbat freetard". In two words "fuck you".
This, of course, doesn't affect me. I wouldn't be arsed to comment about it, except for YOUR particular comment. Just to let you know -- we "wingbat freetards" also go crazy if a Firefox extension modifies ANOTHER extension with permission (Noscript vs Adblock). (Grrr... Don't presume that you know what's better for me. If you make that assumption, prepare to be flamed.)
On the other hand -- this is the most brilliant troll I have seen in months! Congratulations, I responded!
I wouldn't have bothered replying, except that Slashdot doesn't have a Troll+1 moderation (Troll-1 isn't applicable here; this one is pure genius).
Just another "Cubible(sic) Joe" 2 17 3061
I very deliberately set up my FireFox to NOT use Flash, Shockwave, Acrobat, etc... and not have any content type plugins. I browse the web with that and with NoScript installed, and ONLY allow trusted sites to run JavaScript on my browser. IF I run into a site that needs more (YouTube for videos, other sites where I HAVE TO have Flash and really need to use the site, etc...), THEN I fire up IE Tab or a copy of IE for it. The idea being that I will control who executes what on my browser as much as it is possible.
Ah, so you basically represent a level of paranoia that encroaches on functionality and usability. Since you represent about a hundredth of a percent of users, I recommend you manually scrape the extension out of the system and keep the tin-foil hat tightly so that the government doesn't read your thoughts while you're doing it... and watch out for chemtrails, too.
Holy shit. +4 Insightful for "malicious OS"? You do realize that users are set up with limited rights now because that's how people bitched at them to make it, right? It's now malicious to make a product how people are screaming for it to be made? Go ahead, mod me troll, flamebait, whatever, but screaming about an OS acting how the user wanted it, using a facet of the browser that was *known* about previously (Sun's extension, for example) is stupid. If people are so anti-.net, why did they install the update in the first place? It's _optional_. .net can be removed. It's not even hard.
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