Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Firefox self-update?
- From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:45:58 -0400
Firefox runs as a user, it doesn't need Admin.
On Aug 29, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Joel Peterson <email@hidden> wrote:
> Plenty of applications do this: Adium, Alfred, VLC to name a few big ones.
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> Joel Peterson
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> On 8/29/12 7:17 AM, "David Emery" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> dave
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