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Microsoft Hides Firefox Extension In Toolbar Update

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-they-can dept.

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."

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  1. yay by Pojut · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I like your products, Microsoft...but I still abhor your business practices.

    Kinda like Sony, Apple, etc...

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  2. Again? by tom17 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Didn't they do this before with a .net update?

    1. Re:Again? by logjon · · Score: 3, Interesting

      One of. If you have it installed on IE, it installs it on firefox, even if you didn't have the firefox one. Even if you don't even have firefox installed.

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  3. Ubuntu isn't much better by SCHecklerX · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Every time ubuntu updates firefox, it slams it's own list of search engines into my browser, and I have to yet again remove them. Why would a system update muck with personal settings like that?