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.

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We need an new abbreviation

[selven]

LATFDBS - Look At The Date Before Submitting

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[nizo]

Where is my "+1 Insightful but gross" mod option?

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[YouWantFriesWithThat]

there also is a small subset that makes lists that don't include a "???"

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[Allicorn]

They make great mice.

And I hate them for it!

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[mazarin5]

Not quite, the majority of the people here not only don't read the article, they don't bother to read the summary they are responding to. Some don't even read the comments when they reply.

They are not!

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[Propaganda13]

You must be new here. The majority of people here on Slashdot are meme scripts.

signed,
The You Must Be New Here Meme Script

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[krakelohm]

ASL?

Re:So the WaPo reports a story a month obsolete?

[Keeper Of Keys]

It was an instance of buggery, not fallacio.