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Friday, July 3rd 2009
I was one of many who was fooled into installing some version of Microsoft’s .NET runtime which installed an annoying extension into Firefox. It was annoying because it couldn’t be uninstalled. What’s wrong with you people at Microsoft?
After searching around I found a way of getting rid of the extension. But yesterday I realized that the extension had added a bit about .NET to Firefox’s user agent string.
So, how to get rid of it? Quite easily it turns out:
Or you can install this update which will allow you to uninstall the extension using the usual method by clicking the unisntall button http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cecc62dc-96a7-4657-af91-6383ba034eab
Also, another way again is to open up about:config in the Firefox address bar and search for dotnet and disable it within there.
Does the same as the above without having to edit any files.