On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote:

> >> > I found three plug ins- two Microsoft DRM and the Windows Media Player
> >> > Dynamic Link Library.
> >>
> >
> >They are all firefox plugins.
>
> Well, no.


They are all in the Firefox plugin list on my PC.  I think that makes them
plugins by definition.  Why a DLL library is called a plugin on Firefox on
the PC is weird enough thing to question.  The Mac only had Silverlight
which I think I might have put there for the Olympics.

>
>
> >From what I was able to piece together, if FF detects that it needs those
> plugins to display some media and finds them installed for IE it will
> link to IE's without asking permission.
>
> I can understand why somebody would think that is a good idea, but I
> would rather that it ask before acting.
>
>

-- 
John Duncan Yoyo
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