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Allow Non-admin Users to Update Firefox

Posted at December 15, 2007 12:06 pm | In Software | By: Ben Woodruff

We recently noticed a problem where Firefox would prompt users (who are not administrators on their workstations) to update to the latest version (ie, from 2.0.0.8 to 2.0.0.9). If they tried to complete the update however, it would fail, giving the error “Software Update Failed”.

We decided the best solution was to come up with a way to let users update Firefox themselves, without being made local admins. The reason we wanted them to be able to do this is that IT doesn’t get around to everyone’s workstation often enough to keep up with the latest version of Firefox, and we felt that it was important for them to have that (for security reasons). (more…)

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Tags: Active Directory, Administration, Firefox, Hacking, Networking, Security, Software, Web Browsers

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