Safe to delete this mozillaplugin entry in the registry?

[wutsup]

Firefox silently installed a Windows Live plugin and I figured how to remove it and deleted the registry entries related to it, but I'm not sure about this plugin registry entry.

It's located in HKLM(and HKCU)/SOFTWARE/MozillaPlugins/@microsoft/GENUINE.

Safe to delete from the registry?

[ABee]

It's the WGA plugin for Mozilla, in case you use Firefox to get your Windows updates from Microsoft's update site.

http://www.microsoft.com/Genuine/dia...ng=en&s=ci&cnt

I'd imagine the Windows Live plugin allows Firefox to interact with Windows Live applications.

[allizomeniz]

You could try analyzing with CCleaner. If it shows as safe to delete it's probably okay. You can save any registry key by exporting (right-click>export and save). If you discover you need it later, you can put it back (right-click>merge). If you got rid of the plugin and most of the registry entries, you could just leave it unless you've got a really good reason for deleting it.