Closed
Bug 295196
Opened 19 years ago
Closed 19 years ago
windowsupdate.microsoft.com inaccessible with Firefox.
Categories
(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)
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(Reporter: bugzilla-mozilla, Unassigned)
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Just recently got round to upgrading from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Ideally I would like to ditch IE, but cannot do so, with the main reason so far being because Firefox is unable to run the checks for Windows Update. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select the "Windows Update" option from the start menu. 2. Observe that this opens Internet Explorer, and attempt to use Firefox instead 3. Navigate to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com (actually only Step 3 is necessary to reproduce the problem) Actual Results: An error page starting: Thank you for your interest in Windows Update Windows Update is the online extension of Windows that helps you get the most out of your computer. You need to be running a version of Internet Explorer 5 or higher in order to use Windows Update. Expected Results: Firefox should access the windowsupdate site in such a way that this important OS function can be implemented without using Internet Explorer. Furthermore, step 1 should cause Firefox to open rather than Internet Explorer. This seems a major problem preventing me from using Firefox exclusively on a Windows OS, since this is the main route by which important security updates are distributed.
Comment 1•19 years ago
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Windowsupdate requires the browser to support ActiveX controls, something that firefox will never do due to security concerns. This is likely to be a WONTFIX
Comment 2•19 years ago
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Reporter please search for existing bugs before filling. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 91210 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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Comment 3•19 years ago
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I did search for existing bugs... there seemed to be nothing relevant using a search for [ windows update ] in the bugzilla helper.
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Comment 5•19 years ago
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Hmmm... too hasty to V. DUPE - it's actually a dupe of a different bug (now I've searched WONTFIX etc. bugs too)...
Status: VERIFIED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
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Comment 6•19 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28321 ***
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago → 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•19 years ago
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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