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Old 02-24-2007, 04:15 AM
Jane C
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Re: NOTICE: Firefox users...

Vista has no conflicts here, with Firefox installed. A release version of
course, not one of those 'nightly-builds'.

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"Jonathan Schwartz 2" <JonathanSchwartz2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Scott,
>
> Double NOTICE for Vista users.
>
> Do NOT *ever* install Firefox and Vista will never experience conflicts.
>
> The best method for preventing user induced troubles and conflicts while
> using Windows Vista; keep that in-secure nightly-build crap as Firefox far
> away from Vista.
>
> What you have factually accomplished; corrupted and polluted our worlds
> most
> state-of-the-art OS, Vista.
>
> Question for you; would you install Yugo parts inside a new Rolls Royce
> and
> then complain how the new Rolls Royce no longer properly functions?
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> Windows Vista
> Become Part of The Legacy!
>
>
>
> "Scott" wrote:
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>> Mozilla just released security and stability updates to versions of
>> Firefox. Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.2 and 1.5.0.10 have been released [1].
>>
>> If you've got Firefox set to check for and install updates
>> automatically, you'll find it won't work properly due to a Vista-related
>> bug. It checks, downloads the update and notifies you to install, but
>> the installation will fail without notice [2].
>>
>> I know of two ways around this:
>>
>> 1). Close Firefox. Right click on it's shortcut icon and select "run as
>> administrator". When you get Firefox up and running go to the help menu
>> and select "Check for updates". Follow the prompts from there. After
>> Firefox has closed and restarted close it again and re-start as a normal
>> user.
>>
>> 2). Do a full install of the latest version over the previous version [3]
>>
>> [1] [url]http://mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=20520[/url]
>> [2] [url]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352762[/url]
>> [3] [url]http://getfirefox.ccom[/url]
>>
>>
>> I just thought I'd share....
>>
>>
>>
>> -
>> Scott [url]http://angrykeyboarder.com[/url]
>>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> NOTICE: In-Newsgroup (and therefore off-topic) comments on my sig will
>> be cheerfully ignored, so don't waste our time.
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