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 -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
