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Microsoft Update Slips In a Firefox Extension
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| While doing a weekly scrub of my Windows systems, which includes checking for
| driver updates and running virus scans, I found Firefox notifying me of a new
| add-on. It's labelled 'Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant,' and it 'Adds
| ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the
| web server.' The add-on could not be uninstalled in the usual way. A little
| Net searching turned up a number of sites offering advice on getting rid of
| the unrequested add-on.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F02%2F01%2F2143218&from=rss
Keep your grubby hands off Firefox, you gangsters.
Recent:
Firefox Add-Ons: Addictive Browsing Enhancers
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| If there is one Web addiction that I have not been able to tame, it's
| collecting add-ons for Firefox. I currently have 43 add-ons actively running
| in my browser, and I have an additional two that I use in Thunderbird.
|
| As a staple of the Web experience, browsers have come a long way. When
| Firefox began allowing developers to create add-on applications, browser
| usability was greatly improved.
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http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/66015.html
Related:
Ten years of Mozilla
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| Ten years ago, Netscape announced it would release to the public the code of
| its flag ship product, Netscape Communicator 5, making it an open source
| product. The action came at a time when Netscape was still the dominant web
| browser: 65 million users and 90% market share in the educational segment
| according to Netscape’s own accounts. But Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was
| grabbing share at a furious pace thanks to it being free (at a time Netscape
| was about$30) and specially the fact that it came bundled with Windows 95 and
| upcoming Windows 98 (released on June 1998).
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/01/ten-years-of-mozilla/
Gates deposition videos
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| Boies: Do you remember that in January, 1996, a lot of OEMs were
| bundling non-Microsoft browsers?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure.
|
| Boies: What were the non-Microsoft browsers that you were
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: What's the question? You're trying to get me to recall
| what other browsers I was thinking about when I wrote that sentence?
|
| Boies: No, because you've told me that you don't know what you
| were thinking about when you wrote that sentence.
|
| Gates: Right.
|
| Boies: What I'm trying to do is get you to tell me what
| non-Microsoft browsers you were concerned about in January of
| 1996. If it had been only one, I probably would have used the
| name of it. Instead I seem to be using the term non-Microsoft
| browsers. My question is what non-Microsoft browsers were you
| concerned about in January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I'm sure -- what's the question? Is it -- are you asking
| me about when I wrote this e-mail or what are you asking me about?
|
| Boies: I'm asking you about January of 1996.
|
| Gates: That month?
|
| Boies: Yes, sir.
|
| Gates: And what about it?
|
| Boies: What non-Microsoft browsers were you concerned about in
| January of 1996?
|
| Gates: I don't know what you mean "concerned."
|
| Boies: What is it about the word "concerned" that you don't
| understand?
|
| Gates: I'm not sure what you mean by it.
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http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/02/gates_depositio.php
Gates Deposition Audio and Video
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| Here is our local copy of the depositions of Bill Gates in the
| Microsoft anti-trust suit. We did our best to convert the
| original Windows Media files into an Open format, ogg. Your
| webmaster is responsible for the video transcoding, the
| audio-only files are contributed by a Groklaw member that
| requested to stay anonymous.
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http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=GatesDepo
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