I’ve received great and unexpected feedback about PluginChecker on my previous post so I’ve decided to refactor its code and better integrate with the standard Extensions Manager.
The original ugly dialog has been removed and informations about the new installed plugins are shown directly onto the Extensions Manager.
PluginChecker v0.2 can be downloaded from SourceForge and from AMO.
In these days the net is populated by blog posts about the .NET Framework Assistant plugin for Firefox, its disabling and the fact Firefox does not warn user when a plugin installs itself without explicit permission.
Well, this is a old problem at least for me, indeed I discovered it some time ago when my Firefox crashed (apparently) without reason, discovering after a couple of days that Microsoft Office 2003 plugin fought with Foxit Reader and Google update plugins.
The problem was that I never installed Office plugin!
Disabling Office plugin Firefox stopped to crash.
After that experience I decided to write a simple (very simple) extension that at every Firefox startup checks if there are new plugins installed.
Nothing so cool, only a quick and dirty solution implemented in a few of hours.
Waiting Mozilla implements a better solution than mine you can install PluginChecker.
If you expect to find PluginChecker innovative or the “I-can-live-without-it” extension you are on the wrong place, if you expect a not intrusive and simple solution to unattended plugins installation than you can take a look at it.
You can download PluginChecker from SourceForge.
Today visiting a website that gives invites for Google Wave I received the message shown below
This is the first time I see a similar “invite”
Well, no thanks I prefer to move away from this website, period!
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