This is one of the reasons why I don't use windows anymore. Microsoft has pulled stunts like this before and so has apple (installing saffari as a security
update for iTunes iIRC).
Unfortunately open source is not immune to this phenomenon, witness the feud between no-script and adblock.
It makes me want to cry.
At least the unremovable extension that Ubuntu installs makes sense. it is only installed if you install firefox through apt, and makes apt and firefox play
nicely together so that you can install and update extensions through apt, but finding information about what is does is unreasonably difficult (or at least
was, maybe the documentation is better now.). If you don't want it you can just install firefox from the installer provided by mozilla rather than the
ubuntu package and it won't be installed.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."
update for iTunes iIRC).
Unfortunately open source is not immune to this phenomenon, witness the feud between no-script and adblock.
It makes me want to cry.
At least the unremovable extension that Ubuntu installs makes sense. it is only installed if you install firefox through apt, and makes apt and firefox play
nicely together so that you can install and update extensions through apt, but finding information about what is does is unreasonably difficult (or at least
was, maybe the documentation is better now.). If you don't want it you can just install firefox from the installer provided by mozilla rather than the
ubuntu package and it won't be installed.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."