Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon
2010-05-27
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Firefox Disables Microsoft .NET Addon ZosX writes ”Around 11:45 PM Friday night, I was prompted by Firefox that it had disabled the addons that Microsoft has been including with .NET — specifically, the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation. The popup announcing this said that the ’following addons have been known to cause stability or security issues with Firefox.’ Thanks, Mozilla team, for hitting the kill switch and hopefully this will get Microsoft to release a patch sooner.” Here’s the Mozilla security blog entry announcing the block, which Mozilla implemented via its blocklisting mechanism.
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Authored By Amit Agarwal
Amit Agarwal, Linux and Photography are my hobbies.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.