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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
- Open Regedit (Start > Run > regedit)
- Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions
(or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\extensions for 64-bit versions of Windows
- You'll see {20a82645-c095-46ed-80e3-08825760534b}. Right click it and click Delete.
- Restart Firefox.
- Write an angsty live journal entry about why Micro$oft sucks.
Or
- Get back to work.
For more complete instructions on how to completely obliterate this extension from your computer, see the article at annoyances.org.
I don't think everyone got it. My attempt at satirizing Web 2.0 startups mode of speech fell flat. Or perhaps watching small companies adopt bureaucratic-talk is too depressing to be funny. Such is life.
But I did break character at the end to mention how hard I'm working to bring InstantUpdate 1.0. It may come a little later than I expected (is July 31st "early July"?) but I'd rather release a stable and well tested product late than meeting my self-imposed deadline with shoddy software.
Anyway, back to work.
I promised that I'd have the next version of InstantUpdate out by the "end of June or the beginning of July". I didn't lie. I synergised truth with fact-drought.
You may have noticed my spiffy new vocabulary. It's the forward thinking that we have adopted to mashup the long-tail business. I will also be phasing out the personal singular tone in favor of the plural active tone. We think it's best. I may not agree, but we disagree.
Who am I to argue with we? I am only one but we are one.
The singular tone we used in the past was about boxes thinking outside. But it was raining outside. The brilliant boxes got mashed-up.
We blame the long-tail dog.
Updates to InstantUpdate coming soon. I'm working long hours to make it as great as possible. You'll see.