Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update

Jan writes "As part of its regular Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released an update for its various toolbars, and this update came with more than just documented fixes. The update also installs an add-on for Internet Explorer and an extension for Mozilla Firefox, both without the user's permission."

Comments

Oh get a sense of perspective FFS

[Viol8]

Its a friggin browser extension. We're not talking a Sony rootkit here!

I'm no MS fan but this constant MS bashing from self righteous geeks who smell an easy target gets tedious after a while.

If you really hate MS so much why are you running Windows in the first place to get upset about it? Install Ubuntu
or buy a Mac and shut up.

Re:Wow!

[jabbathewocket]

Pay attention buddy, the idiot user of the system installed a MS branded toolbar.. which when installed will install an extension in firefox if it is installed.. understand? Lemme spell it out in BIG GIANT LETTERS

Person decides he wants the bing toolbar from MS.. he happens to have firefox and IE8 on his system..

The bing toolbar being a toolbar.. that is a bloody browser extension

Now it has to add itself to both IE and Firefox..

So when that toolbar gets updated

Still following along? GOOD

Yep thats right.. when the original toolbar which installs both IE and firefox extensions is updated...

SO ARE THE FIREFOX AND IE EXTENSIONS



This is not news, this is dumb people who forget that they clicked download installed something in IE a year or more ago, and now suddenly get emo that they restarted firefox and see a new extension (or updated extension)

For some reason this triggers them to go into a frenzy of posting on slashdot and elsewhere about how evil MS is for updating the product that the dumb user installed and forgot about.