M32 - Shut up, I'm doing stuff

So I'm minding my own business yesterday when I run Update Manager on Ubuntu Karmic Koala. But then I noticed something interesting, a new Firefox extension just got installed called Multisearch. I didn't know what it was, I just assumed it was another extension to integrate FF and Ubuntu in some cool way I'd later figure out.
But as I started browsing and using search, I noticed what it did; it changed the behavior of the built-in search box in Ubuntu. Instead of doing a regular Google search, I was now being directed to Google Custom Search. I was a little confused until I noticed that pretty much the only functionality of the extension was to redirect me to Ubuntu's custom Google search page--with more ads. Oh, it gets better. As well as having three large and annoying text ads at the top of every search page now, I no longer had links to Google Image Search, Google Shopping, Google Maps, or any other Google search service, including Advanced search.
Did I forget to mention that every new tab that is opened directs you to the Ubuntu Start Page now instead of just about:blank? Well it does that. Great. Just what I needed. A page that loads automatically on every new tab. That won't slow things down any. And now other people have noticed this as well and are starting to complain in Ubuntu's Karmic testing forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1219501
I'm fine with Canonical finding clever ways to bolster their income to help offload costs of the project; I'm just not cool with a non-optional extension they sneak into Firefox that hijacks my search box to show me more ads and loads Ubuntu Start with the same custom search results on every new tab I open. Hopefully someone realizes that this is a bad idea and pulls the extension, or at the very least, informs you that it's going to be installing it.