On 10/21/2011 3:29 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:08:19 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> On 10/19/2011 18:30, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> Oh, I see. :)  That's what I get for being overtired for the past week
>>
>> Yeah, no problem. Lots of people *try* to turn conversations into
>> debates. Certainly I'm not going to mind that you thought I was doing
>> that. :-)
>
> LOL
>
>>> Ah, *that* thing.  I hadn't heard it called that, just heard about the
>>> MS extensions being installed without the user being asked. :)
>>
>> Yeah. It's their package manager for applications you install and update
>> over the web. I'm honestly not sure why they felt the need to add
>> support in firefox, but there you have it.
>
> Probably to avoid accusations of acting in a non-competitive manner or
> something like that.
>
> Jim
Snort.. Yeah, which is I suppose why those things are usually "disabled" 
automatically by Firefox, as a) security threats, and b) prone to cause 
instability. lol

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