Microsoft .NET Add-on

andrew at torproject.org andrew at torproject.org
Sun Nov 22 19:15:04 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 02:15:59AM +0800, 1965koh at gmail.com wrote 0.5K bytes in 15 lines about:
: I noticed that on Windows, Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant Add-on
: is installed and enabled for all Firefox installation (portable or
: not), i.e. including the Tor Browser Bundle 1.2.10. Would this add-on
: be a security risk to anonymity?

It's not actually installed in the firefox that comes with the tor
browser bundles.  Firefox has some display issue where it looks in the
registry and displays all add-ons available.  If you go to the mozilla
test site for plugins, you'll see nothing works.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Testing_plugins

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