Could they also please block all the .NET-related addons that Microsoft development products install nowadays? They're even set so YOU CANNOT REMOVE THEM FROM WITHIN THE BROWSER. WHY is this even possible? The addons also alter your User-Agent.
If you've never seen this before, Google ".net addon firefox".
I wish they would make it so that addons and plugins can only be installed inside Firefox (via addons.mozilla.org, File > Open or exceptions for trusted sites.)
I have seven plugins listed and I only installed two of them.
2007 Microsoft Office system - Installed with Office 2007
Google Update - Installed with Google Chrome (??)
Java Deployment Toolkit - Installed with Java (on Firefox blocklist)
Java Platform - Installed with Java
Picasa - Installed with Google Picassa
Shockwave Flash - I installed this
Silverlight - I installed this
In the extension category only two are there that I didn't installed
FiddlerHook - Installed with Fiddler (not removed after uninstalling Fiddler, uninstall button greyed out in Firefox)
Java Console - Installed with Java
That wouldn't be good for Linux distributions which have their own package management system. For example Fedora offers the following packages: mozilla-adblockplus, mozilla-vlc, mozilla-noscript etc.
IMHO, the Linux distros are doing it wrong. Just because you have a package management system, doesn't mean you have to use it for everything. I think hackers have seen the absolutely shitpile that most distro's make when they try to override things like CPAN, Ruby Gems, etc. They really need to go hands off on some of those things and let the secondary package manager do it's job
Just because you've got a hammer, doesn't mean every problem is a nail.
Definitely. As a hacktivist, I'm sure you're familiar with the dangers of browser plugins. I find that browsers allow this behaviour to be extremely unnerving.
It's possible to register non-profile extensions in the registry, specifically so software installed on the system can be shared across user accounts, and be installed/uninstalled orthogonally to Firefox.
The downside, of course, is that Firefox doesn't know how to uninstall these extensions. You can of course still disable them, which has almost exactly the same effect.
If you've never seen this before, Google ".net addon firefox".