Re: Alarming message in SM 2.0 beta
Bill Davidsen wrote: MSFT says they snuck an add-on into Firefox using the don't ask, don't tell method. MSFT claims they did it to add functionality while conspiracy chat rooms say it was to introduce bugs in Mozilla code. Thanks Bill, Are you seriously saying that Microsoft are able to install plug-ins to FireFox? If so, do you mean it was in the official FF distro, or do you mean it was added _after_ FF was installed? If you mean it was added post-install, how were Microsoft able to do this? -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Alarming message in SM 2.0 beta
Gerry Hickman wrote: Hi, I'm currently running SM2.0 beta (rolled back from SM2.0 RC1 due to many problems). While downloading a file, a message just popped up saying an Add-on was causing problems and was blocked, it points to this article https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522777 Thing is, I've never installed any add-ons, and I've disabled installing add-ons. I also don't understand why anything related to Microsoft is interfering with Mozilla? The whole point of using SM is to avoid Microsoft's security-flawed application software. MSFT says they snuck an add-on into Firefox using the don't ask, don't tell method. MSFT claims they did it to add functionality while conspiracy chat rooms say it was to introduce bugs in Mozilla code. See my sig on this. -- Bill Davidsen david...@tmr.com We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. - from Slashdot ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Alarming message in SM 2.0 beta
Gerry Hickman wrote: While downloading a file, a message just popped up saying an Add-on was causing problems and was blocked, it points to this article https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=522777 Thing is, I've never installed any add-ons, and I've disabled installing add-ons. I also don't understand why anything related to Microsoft is interfering with Mozilla? The whole point of using SM is to avoid Microsoft's security-flawed application software. Please read http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/10/16/net-framework-assistant-blocked-to-disarm-security-vulnerability/ for that, it also liks articles with more info about what it is. Microsoft installs it silently and in a somewhat hidden fashion, and their representatives asked to block it for now. Robert Kaiser ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
