Wyatt Says...

This little extension automatically installed itself into Firefox when I updated Visual Studio 2008 with SP1. The extension, Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant, describes itself as “Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET versions to the web server.”:

As you can see the Uninstall button is disabled. I could waste several mouse-scrolls of space bitching about the slimy practice of installing bloat, but I’ll just get to the point.

How to uninstall

1. Open Regedit (Start > Run > “regedit”)
2. Goto “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions”
3. You’ll see “{20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}”. Right click it and click Delete.
4. Restart Firefox.
5. Write an angsty live journal entry about why “Micro$oft“ sucks.

Or

5. Get back to work.