Firefox 3 Following Windows Security Settings
Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 to their most strict level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla.
Firefox 3 may block downloads of all executable files (eg: .exe or .msi) if the Windows Internet security option, “Launching applications and unsafe files” is set to “Disabled”. This security option is available on Windows Vista and Windows XP systems with Internet Explorer 7 installed.
If you see an error message “This download has been blocked by your Security Zone Policy” under the filename in the Firefox Downloads window, it means you have set the Security level of Internet Explorer 7 to the highest. Read this article to fix the issue.
Thank you for the article.
I don’t think Fx has any business following some setting in IE. That makes no sense to me. They are COMPLETELY SEPARATE browsers and should have nothing in common.
As for forcing your AV to scan your download that also is not a good idea. I can just see all the problems that are going to happen because of this when Fx has the wrong path to the scanner, etc. and since this is brand new in Fx3 users won’t even suspect this as the causen for their problem as they won’t know that Fx is forcing scanning after download.
These are reasons why I continue to use Fx 1.5 on my host computer. I don’t need Mozilla pulling a Microsoft and trying to boss me around.
@Technical Inspiration: Wow! I guess you are too angry with Firefox 3. Well, everybody has got their own point of views for different browsers and I don’t think you are wrong for yourself.
Cheers!