Posted by Brian on October 17, 2009 ·
An “important” automatic Windows Update pushed out to all users by Microsoft last February had caused some outrage among some Firefox users. This update had added a .NET Add-on that adds ClickOnce support and also installed a plugin named “Windows Presentation Foundation” to Firefox without the user’s consent or knowledge. Not only that, but without doing some registry digging which is dangerous, it was impossible to uninstall the add-on. It even adds an extra string [...]