Mozilla exec tells Microsoft, Google and Apple to 'stop being evil'
A representative of Firefox web browser developer Mozilla, has criticised computing giants for ‘unwanted plug-ins’ installed by the companies into the Firefox browser.
“Why do they think this is okay?” asks Asa Dotzler, famously outspoken Mozilla director of Community Development in a blog entry referring to the practice of installing plug-ins to Firefox when installing software from Apple, Microsoft, Google and ‘others’.
“When I installed iTunes, in order to manage my music collection and sync to my iPod, why did Apple think it was OK to add the iTunes Application Detector plug-in to my Firefox web browser without asking me?” asks Dotzler.
He went on to criticise Microsoft for installing plug-ins for Windows Live Photo Gallery and Office Live Plug-ins and Google for installing the Google Update lug-in when installing Google Earth or Google Chrome.
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