[nzlug] Observation on installing firefox to WinXP (SP3)

[Steve Holdoway]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:00:56 +1300
Simon Bridge <simonbridge at ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 10:31 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> > Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> writes:
> > > I've never seen it before but I have to say your report gives me yet
> > > more pause on the Windows front... talk about anti competitive...
> > 
> > I can only say "what?!" to that; this has been a feature of Windows for
> > years under any security settings.
> > 
> > When you download a file from the Internet with the system tools it
> > marks it as "warn before running" and displays that dialog before
> > allowing you to continue.
> 
> Curious - I spent some time installing third party software to WinXP
> home SP1 and did not encounter this dialog. Including with the firefox
> installer.
> 
The big security upgrade was in SP2... and I wouldn't run anything on SP1 if it's on the internet! You need SP2 for SP3, which was about an extra 350MB download on top!!!

Steve,

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Steve Holdoway <steve at greengecko.co.nz>