Why is WU installing Firefox add-on's?
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From: Michael on 3 Mar 2010 19:25 "EN59CVH" <EN59CVH(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:uJfS6yxuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Gene3 wrote: > >>Why is that strange comment relevant to my post? >> >> > Because he is a pig and a member of the Geriatric Society! ....and your father fu(a)ks your sister. Don't throw stones whilst living in an incestuous glass house. -- "Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."
From: Gene3 on 3 Mar 2010 20:20 I thought this was the MS Windows Update group. Maybe I was mistaken - but if not here, then where? At least I'd like a reasonable response to my primary question... Why is Windows Update installing Firefox add-ons without any prior notice to user, especially buggy incompatible ones? -- Marco "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:eS5W8nxuKHA.6140(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Because your comment/rant is falling on deaf ears here. IOW, save your > bandwidth. > > Gene3 wrote: >> Why is that strange comment relevant to my post? >> >> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP(a)gmail.com> wrote in message >> news:uDiQnawuKHA.812(a)TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >>> No one here works for or represents Microsoft. >>> >>> "Gene3" <Gene3(a)not.valid> wrote in message >>>> Why is WU putting add-ons into Firefox? It's Mozilla's responsibility >>>> to >>>> take care of their own browser, and I imagine they would prefer it that >>>> way. >>> <SNIP? >
From: ybS2okj on 3 Mar 2010 20:43 "Gene3" <Gene3(a)not.valid> wrote in message news:uFpOrjzuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Why is Windows Update installing Firefox add-ons without any prior notice > to user, especially buggy incompatible ones? It could be so that it becomes easier for M$ to sabotage Firefox on your system to force you to start re-using IE8!!! Now this is just a guess. In Europe, people are offered a choice of browsers and the patch is so bad that it has become a nuisance because of pop-ups every now and then. Surely, M$ could have done a better job but no. It has to cause inconvenience to its users to teach EU Commissionaires a lesson!! Now this is called capitalism at its best!
From: Gene3 on 3 Mar 2010 21:00 You may be right but more likely, I believe, is the MS software engineers are inept and out of touch. The whole .NET complex is a big mess, very difficult to install and update properly. After several tries and a major effort, I finally got .NET 1.0 thru 3.5 completely installed and patched, working OK except for the subject of this thread. Then I get only strange responses to my research in this MS WU group, suggesting that the MS-MVP's here aren't up to the task either. So I can't be very optimistic that they'll ever fix it... "ybS2okj" <ybS2okj(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:upXtVwzuKHA.6140(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > > "Gene3" <Gene3(a)not.valid> wrote in message > news:uFpOrjzuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> Why is Windows Update installing Firefox add-ons without any prior notice >> to user, especially buggy incompatible ones? > > It could be so that it becomes easier for M$ to sabotage Firefox on your > system to force you to start re-using IE8!!! > > Now this is just a guess. In Europe, people are offered a choice of > browsers and the patch is so bad that it has become a nuisance because of > pop-ups every now and then. Surely, M$ could have done a better job but > no. It has to cause inconvenience to its users to teach EU Commissionaires > a lesson!! Now this is called capitalism at its best! > > > >
From: ybS2okj on 3 Mar 2010 21:17
Did you install all the .Net Framework Applications from 1.1 to 3.5 SP1? If so then I have to say you wasted a lot of time because you should have installed only 3.5 SP1 because it is cumulative from 2.0 onwards. Then this leaves 1.1 but it may not be needed unless you are using very old programs like Quickbooks version 6 or VS 2003. I have decided not to install any updates post SP3 and my system is perfect and I don't have any worries about viruses or spywares or even DoS attacks because my Firewall has "No Exceptions allowed". MS-MVPs are a bunch of geriatrics who are jobless and no one wants to employ them. So they spend their time here to keep renewing their membership of the Pig-Society" hth "Gene3" <Gene3(a)not.valid> wrote in message news:uSJh25zuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > You may be right but more likely, I believe, is the MS software engineers > are inept and out of touch. The whole .NET complex is a big mess, very > difficult to install and update properly. After several tries and a major > effort, I finally got .NET 1.0 thru 3.5 completely installed and patched, > working OK except for the subject of this thread. Then I get only strange > responses to my research in this MS WU group, suggesting that the MS-MVP's > here aren't up to the task either. So I can't be very optimistic that > they'll ever fix it... > > "ybS2okj" <ybS2okj(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:upXtVwzuKHA.6140(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> >> "Gene3" <Gene3(a)not.valid> wrote in message >> news:uFpOrjzuKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >>> Why is Windows Update installing Firefox add-ons without any prior >>> notice to user, especially buggy incompatible ones? >> >> It could be so that it becomes easier for M$ to sabotage Firefox on your >> system to force you to start re-using IE8!!! >> >> Now this is just a guess. In Europe, people are offered a choice of >> browsers and the patch is so bad that it has become a nuisance because of >> pop-ups every now and then. Surely, M$ could have done a better job but >> no. It has to cause inconvenience to its users to teach EU >> Commissionaires a lesson!! Now this is called capitalism at its best! >> >> >> >> > > |