Silent add-on for Firefox

Started by hazelnut, Oct 17 2009 03:42 PM

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#1 ONLINE hazelnut

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Posted 17 October 2009 - 03:42 PM

Firefox users may find this thread here of great interest

http://www.wildersse...ad.php?t=255875

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Posted 17 October 2009 - 04:00 PM

I noticed the 2 DRM plugins and Windows Presentation Foundation plugin for quite some time now. I disabled them a long time ago.

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Posted 17 October 2009 - 04:05 PM

Thank you Hazel, I appreciate you making me and other Firefox users aware of this. I just posted on the Wilders Security Forum asking if anyone knows what Microsoft figures that the two "DRM" plugins are needed for. I figure I'll disable these two plugins as well.

Thanks again

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#4 OFFLINE fireryone

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Posted 17 October 2009 - 04:15 PM

In FF 3.5.3 I only have one of those listed and it was auto disabled by firefox
(WPF) Windows Presentation Foundation

https://www.mozilla....n-US/blocklist/
List of auto disabled plugins.

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Posted 18 October 2009 - 05:35 PM

Corona, on Oct 17 2009, 04:00 PM, said:

I noticed the 2 DRM plugins and Windows Presentation Foundation plugin for quite some time now. I disabled them a long time ago.

WPF should be caught by FF any way.

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Posted 19 October 2009 - 02:01 AM

Corona, on Oct 17 2009, 10:00 AM, said:

I disabled them a long time ago.

The same here! I just had the feeling sometime ago they could and possibly would be exploited which is why I disabled them on my system.

Companies automatically adding add-ons into Firefox without user consent should re-think their strategy! Or Mozilla could fix it permanently by having Firefox refuse those types of add-on installs, and not allow any settings from unapproved add-ons to be written to the Firefox user profile!

Complexity of incoherent design.