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FF3 respects IE/OS security settings

July 13th, 2008

If you’re one of the few poor (thousands, worldwide) users, you will be pretty surprised and upset once you find out why your downloads suddenly don’t work in your shiny new FF3 installation.

So what happened?

The FF developers decided that their Windows Application should respect the OS security settings. In my case, I use IE only for Windows Update, thus I put the update service from microsoft into the trusted zone and set the default seurity zone settings to high. I just don’t trust IE at all.

Why did this work the years before? Because I used FF for downloading everything else and until now FF didn’t respect this setting, which was a great life safer for me.

To make things worst I haven’t yet figured out a way to disable this behaviour in FF3, which means I’ve to suddenly lift the security settings for the complete system! As you guessed I’m pretty pissed about this.

Update: filed a bug report, excited to see what happens to it.

Update 2: Report closed within hours as Wontfix because it’s a deliberate change.

Update 3: My report has been marked as duplicate in favor of bug 445158 (which contains more information and, interestingly, has been opened by someone with an mozilla.com email address. Does that weight more then my request?)

Update 4: First comment on the report from another pissed user. I couldn’t say it in better words.

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