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Firefox .NET ClickOnce Add-on

Zia — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:52:38 +0000

In February 2009, Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for version 3.5 of the .NET Framework. This update also installed Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant add-on (enabling ClickOnce support).
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The update received a moderate amount of media attention after users discovered that the add-on could not be uninstalled through the add-ons interface.
[How to remove the .NET Framework Assistant for Firefox]
[Remove the Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant (ClickOnce) Firefox Extension]

Several hours after the website Annoyances.org posted an article regarding this update, Microsoft employee Brad Abrams posted in his blog Microsoft’s explanation for why the add-on was installed, and also included detailed instructions on how to remove it.

On 16 October 2009, Mozilla blocked all versions of Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant from being used with Firefox and from the Mozilla Add-ons service.
[Mozilla Blocklist]

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How to set Firefox Google Search in English

Zia — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:49:56 +0000

This tweak allows you to set Firefox Google Search in English independently from your computer language settings and your location and allows you to clear cookies in Firefox 3+.

This tutorial is valid for Windows Operating System with Firefox 3+.

It is likely that this also works on other Operating Systems and/or in older Firefox versions than 3.

To set Firefox Google Search in English you need to modify the file “google.xml“, part of the Firefox installation.

First of all, close every Firefox instance.

Open the folder "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\" by clicking Start, then Run, in the Open box type the folder path and then click OK.

Copy the already present file “google.xml” to “google1.xml” in the same directory "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\".

This is to keep a back up copy of the original Firefox installation, in case you need to revert back to it.

Open the file “google.xml” with Notepad.

It would look like this “google.xml” but the long key string for the "Image" tag is different for every Firefox installation.

Add this statement “” to the “Param” list.

The file modified will look like this “google.xml“.

Save the file “google.xml” in the folder "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins\" and close it.
Restart Firefox and see the results.