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Crayz9000 wrote:Why is a new Firefox extension part of a critical update?

Anti-trust.

ClickOnce has recieved major improvements, a lot of that relying on general improvements in the .NET framework itself. So with updates to the framework, you basicly get the new ClickOnce for 'free'. Untill this Firefox plugin, ClickOnce was IE only. And given Microsoft still has to comply with anti-trust oversite about IE not being required, Microsoft had a legal madate to offer this product to other browsers.

Faqa wrote:

Crayz9000 wrote:

Xon wrote:It is part of a critical update which updates the .NET framework to the newest codebase. This includes a host of other features and fixes as well.

Let me restate my question:

Why is a new Firefox extension part of a critical update?

My best guess is that they want Firefox users to be able to use ClickOnce, and know full well that the technology isn't sexy enough to mandate an update. Therefore, they sneak in the extension as part of the framework that makes it possible.

The big question is whether you can choose to not install it when installing the Framework. If not, that's out of line.

Apparently both my Firefox browsers at home and work have it installed. I don't recall being asked whether I wanted to or not.

Is it bad that I recall when Microsoft added code to early versions of Windows and MS-Dos6 that killed all non IDE format HDDs?