Reference: Firefox blocks insecure .Net add-on

After looking at the comments, I realized I wasn’t the only one to see the “Add-On May Be Causing Problems” window in FireFox, see something from Microsoft, and think “what, wait…. did I install that?”.

Microsoft has been pushing add-ons to FireFox through Windows Update.

Let me type that again…

Microsoft has been PUSHING add-ons to FIREFOX through WINDOWS UPDATE.

This is terrible.

First off, if I want an add-on for FireFox, I will add it myself.  I don’t need Windows Update to do it for me.

Second, I don’t want the Windows Presentation Framework.  I don’t know what it is, but I surely don’t use it.

Third, Microsoft, if you are going to silently install add-ons to FireFox, at least make sure they don’t have unintended side-effects, like SLOWING the startup of FireFox.

After uninstalling this garbage off my machine, I’ve noticed that the 1-2 minute delay when starting FireFox is gone.  I’m glad, too, as it has had a tendency to delay our attendance-on-demand website where I clock-in.

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After seeing http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1120.html, I had to redo it in PhotoShop using the latest mess I found in the shit that is Internet Explorer 7.  Click for a larger (legible) image.

The browsers talking about their support for CSS

After seeing that, you can check out http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/8/16/4999, which is a response to IE Group Program Manager’s response to people bitching about IE and standards compliance.  I found this after building a Web Site in Visual Web Developer 2005 (a Micro$oft product) and having it look perfect in FireFox, only to bring it up in Internet Explorer and having some wierd shit happen.  An ASP:Panel changed border styles and text colors (white text was showing up as blue, even if I used ‘#FFFFFF’ instead of ‘White’).