Hi everyone, We wanted to inform this group of changes that may be made to the group ownership and permissions of Firefox installations on OSX during future updates.
*tl;dr: Desktop Firefox for OSX will add the ability for end-users to run elevated updates should a regular update not be possible. An elevated update will set the group ownership of the Firefox.app application bundle to “admin” and add write permission for the group. Only users with administrative privileges can run elevated updates.* An installation of Firefox on OSX could previously only be updated by the user who originally installed it. In bug 394984 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394984>, we are adding the ability for users to enter administrative credentials to run an elevated update if required. As part of the elevated update, the group ownership of the Firefox.app application bundle will be recursively set to “admin” and write permission will be added for the group. This allows for administrative users to run future updates without further elevation. Non-administrative users will not be able to run elevated updates, set group ownership to “admin” or add write permission for the group unless administrative credentials are entered. If you have any questions or concerns, please let us know by replying to this email or by commenting in bug 394984 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=394984>. -Stephen A Pohl
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