Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
- From: Joel Peterson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:39:06 +0000
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
Plenty of applications do this: Adium, Alfred, VLC to name a few big ones.
Joel Peterson
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On 8/29/12 7:17 AM, "David Emery" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Has anyone ever looked into how Firefox does its updates? In particular,
>how does Firefox "get away with" doing an update on itself withOUT
>prompting for an Administrator password?
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>That sure bothers me, it seems to me Mozilla has figured out a way around
>some of the MacOS security protections.
>
> dave
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