So what's this Windows Presentation Foundation?

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  [Deleted User] Posts: 1,245

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  17/10/09 - 13:49 #2

  fenlander wrote: »

  Firefox has just told me that it's disabled the .NET Framework Assistant and the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin as potential security risks. Firefox now feels like it's had a 10,000 mile service - smoother and faster.
  
  So what's this Windows Presentation Foundation and where did it come from? I didn't install it.

  Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is a graphical interface and is part of the .NET Framework which comes with Visual Studio. I just got the same message and I'm fairly sure that my copy of this came from installing Visual Studio C++ and/or C# express edition on my system.
  You might also get this installed as part of the whole ".NET Framework" which you probably have installed, or have had installed by an application.
  
  Apparently these plugins contained security issues and Microsoft asked Firefox to disable them as the easiest way to block the potential problems.

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  fenlander Posts: 2,199

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  17/10/09 - 15:19 #3

  Thanks for that. I'm certainly not seeing any disadvantages to having disabled them.

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  Dragons_Heartbeat Posts: 3,203

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  17/10/09 - 19:10 #4

  I just removed the plug-in from Firefox myself but had to override a load of Windows Permission settings to get control of the folder where they are stored.

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  GaryB Posts: 4,259

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  17/10/09 - 23:18 #5

  MS have been a bit bit naughty:
  
  http://www.osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft

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