If you've been noting some odd Firefox updates on your Windows machine, here's what has been going on. Last week, Microsoft released a Windows update. Part of this update was to silently insert into Firefox a Microsoft .Net extension. Firefox developers were upset, not only because this bypassed the normal procedure for extensions, which requires a user's permission, but because it introduced to Firefox the same sort of vulnerabilities to viruses and malware users of Internet Explorer face. So at the end of the week, Firefox released an update which removes the Microsoft extension. Hence, the messages you've been seeing on your screen.
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