June 1, 2009

Microsoft installs a Firefox extension

The software giant slipped in a security update on millions of computers, this is an add on for the millions of users who have chosen Mozilla’s Firefox as their browser.

A lot of users will not be too pleased about this additional add on, and therefore will no doubt head over to the add on’s interface and simply uninstall the update as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it looks as if they will not be able to do that.

But Microsoft have disabled the uninstall button on this particular extension, in fact according to Microsoft the only way that this add on can be removed is by modifying the Windows registry, which as we know can be very problematic at the best of times, one slip up and the user can be in trouble.

Source [Washington Post]