In <news:brsdnaea4pknukpxnz2dnuvz_vqdn...@mozilla.org>, Nairda <a...@me.first> wrote:
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/security/?p=1716&tag=nl.e011 > > Snip: > "We added this support at the machine level in order to enable the > feature for all users on the machine. Seems reasonable right? Well, > turns out that enabling this functionality at the machine level, > rather than at the user level means that the “Uninstall” button is > grayed out in the Firefox Add-ons menu because standard users are not > permitted to uninstall machine-level components." Irresponsible journalism, all too typical in the tech press. The techrepublic guy is quoting Brad Abrams' blog entry, <http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2009/02/27/uninstalling-the-clickonce-support-for-firefox.aspx>, but he neglected to quote this part: Update (5/2009): We just release an update to .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 that makes the firefox plug in a per-user component. This makes uninstall a LOT cleaner.. none of the steps below are required once this update is installed. That update was made to the blog *before* the techreport article was posted. No browser, including Firefox and SeaMonkey, can protect the user from anything any app that the user chooses to run with administrative privileges. In this case, the app was Windows Update, which a lot of people trust, but it could have been anything. -- »Q« /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / against html e-mail X <http://asciiribbon.org/> / \ _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
