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Firefox Extension "Download Statusbar" Now Adware - Maybe Malware
40hz:
Silent update in FF?
Ungood. Double-plus ungood.
No wonder it disappeared (was removed?) from the Mozilla add-on directory.
Oh well..."Boomp-boomp-boomp! Another one bites the dust!" as Freddie would have said.
Shame. That was one of my "must haves." I even contributed. :-\
Jibz:
Thanks for posting this, sad to see this happen, it was a good addon.
eleman:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-statusbar/
Apparently the author (or mozilla) decided to remove the version in question due to universally negative feedback.
Now the older one without the unknown sponsor thingie (0.9.8 ) is featured as the version to download.
rssapphire:
Now the older one without the unknown sponsor thingie (0.9.8 ) is featured as the version to download.
-eleman (October 28, 2011, 11:20 AM)
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It's still 0.9.9 for me. However, I rolled it back to 0.9.8 manually. I looked at the javascript for the new 0.9.9. It does something with Youtube if the download comes from there although I did not waste time trying to figure out what as there was a lot of code. It definitely resets the enable sponsorship setting to true if it has been at least seven days since you disabled it. It looks like it does this silently as well. My opinion of the author of this addin is not printable.
skwire:
Thanks for the heads up; I'll be keeping my current, earlier version.
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