Updated code on .NET 3.5 Network Assistant extension for Firefox **AND** the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin

It turns out that .NET 3.5 also installs a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plugin for Firefox along with it's extension.

So there's more cruft to remove.

More on this annoyance here:
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/10/17/microsoft-silently-installing-windows-presentation-foundation-plugin-for-firefox/

And my original blog post on the .NET Firefox extension is here:
http://borchtech.blogspot.com/2009/06/batch-file-to-remove-microsofts-net-35.html


The Mozilla folks just started blocking both of these in Firefox, then started unblocking them:
http://shaver.off.net/diary/2009/10/19/update-on-the-net-framework-assistant-and-windows-presentation-foundation-plugin-blocking-from-this-weekend/
I've got a better solution -- remove/delete/uninstall all of this junk.


.NET 3.5 is useful for all sorts of programs, but not for this. It's Firefox extension and plugin here have almost no real world use -- and only opens Firefox open to possible future security issues.

The best/safest plan is to remove them both. You *DON'T* need them.

I've updated my batch file, fixed a couple of bugs, and posted a new version with plugin removal routines. So now you can remove both the Microsoft Firefox extension and the WPF plugin. It should work on Windows XP or greater, and on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows. (I've tested on both.)

(I haven't yet tested on Windows 7, but it should work.)

Updated code is in the same location as before:
http://members.dslextreme.com/users/mattb47/blog/remove-firefox-dot-net-extension.bat