Dammit, Microsoft…
Why, when I’m over being pissed off for something, you go and pull additional bullshit?
Installed .Net Framework 3.5 SP1, and after restarting Firefox for unrelated reasons, notice that a new add-on has been installed:
Like a virus
The installer didn’t ask, and what’s this? I can’t uninstall it? Are you fucking kidding me? Oh look, they changed my user-agent string too:
Go away!
To remove this bullshit, do the following:
- Open Regedit
- Goto HKLM\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions
- Delete the key {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}
- Restart Firefox.
To remove the user-agent string (add-ons like User Agent Switcher will not change the default), open the about:config page, and in the Filter box, type “useragent” and you should see “general.useragent.extra.microsoftdotnet” somewhere near the top.
Reset this value so it becomes empty (it will be automatically deleted).
Fuck you, Microsoft. Next time, ask. You also went out of your way to ensure it couldn’t be uninstalled. What’s up with that? Just provide a link to the installer. If the add-on is something we want as users, we can install it ourselves.
Update (9/19): Commenter Matti brings up that it’s because of the method of install that you can’t uninstall this add-on, like any other add-on installed via the registry.
