ms firefox add on

[mbyuser]

i cant rem the name off the add on that ms sneakly added to firefox,but after a new format its no longer installed.

anyone know the name off that add on and/or why its no longer being added?

i had it disabled anyway,many where thinking off removing it.

(theres a post somewhere about that add on but i can find it and ive have tried.)

[chimpy]

.Net Framework 3.5 .... you mean?

I just checked and I seem not loger to have it either and I know all I did was disable it when it was installed.

EDIT

I had a look in my updates and on the 24-06-09 I got this update http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/963707 so I do not know if it self uninstalled?

[mbyuser]

thats intresting,thats its removed without you doing anything.

thanx for the links.reading it was that add on,wonder why ms removed it.

[Jacktivity]

Chimpy is right about .NET Framework 3.5.

It's still in my Firefox Plugins as Windows Presentation Foundation 3.5.30729.1

ID: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\V3.5\Windows Presentation Foundation\NPWPF.dll

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in for Mozilla browsers

[mbyuser]

its was a add on (tools,add ons,extensions) not a plug in,thats ms has removed from firefox.

its no longer in my add ons,i do have that plug in you mention.

i dont have the old add on ms added to firefox.

i hope i made more sense there,i should look harder for that old post (cant rem who started it but i did post in it,so i should find it)

(think we are both saying we no longer have it,unless i read it wrong)

[mbyuser]

found the post/

should off looked a lot harder last night.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/forums/index.p...18468&hl=20

still wonder why its no longer being thrown into firefox.

[chimpy]

I have no idea why its now a plug in, must have been updated and morphed into something else, I do not seem to have it in the add/remove programs or any version on the .NET in there but it must be for a MS reason its changed.

[mbyuser]

confusing.it does look that they have changed it from a add on to a plug in.

it was called the click once or somthing along them lines.

i read Jacktivity`s post wrong,didnt grasp what was ment;was tired.

imo not best idea to post when i`m tired.

so is this plug in usefull to me in anyway or is it simply just usefull to ms?

sneaky the way the way its now changed,leaves me wondering if disabling its a good idea now or not?

[chimpy]

To be honest it now looks like its bundled with other things from the title so I am leaving it as it is, active as there does not seem to be a uninstall button, but maybe someone else will have more info on it.

[catscomputer]

Mine hasn't changed. I still have the MS .NET Framework Assistant in FF 3.5.3 as an add-on, not a plugin. I have it disabled though, and have had for several months. That way if I do happen to need it for something (and I haven't yet) I can just enable it rather than go through the arduous process of having to reinstall it.

I noticed last week when I updated Windows Live Messenger (and a few other Live Essentials things I already had installed) it included an update to .NET something or other. (I forget the exact name now, but I did go check FF afterwards to make sure it hadn't sneakily re-enabled the MS .NET add-on and it had not).