Mozilla Firefox now blocking Microsoft add-ons

Mozilla Firefox now blocking Microsoft add-ons

Mozilla developers are obviously not happy with the reports that Microsoft pushed their own add-ons on Firefox installations through software updates.

And the software giant has now admitted that these add-ons had some security flaws.

Mozilla has taken quick action and Firefox now block these add-ons automatically.

Microsoft on their part delivered an update recently which resolved the problems. But it still is a bad practice to install your products without letting the users know about them.

The two blocked add-ons on Firefox are:

Microsoft .Net Framework Assistant
Windows Presentation Foundation

Mozilla spoke about this new development: “Because of the difficulties some users have had entirely removing the add-on, and because of the severity of the risk it represents if not disabled, we contacted Microsoft today to indicate that we were looking to disable the extension and plugin for all users via our blocklisting mechanism. Microsoft agreed with the plan, and we put the blocklist entry live immediately.”