Closed Bug 457911 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Firefox Depending Upon Internet Exploder Security Settings

Categories

(Firefox :: Security, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Security
Platform:
x86
Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 445158

People

(Reporter: bdebiase, Unassigned)

References

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3 Build Identifier: Firefox 3.0.1 on Windows 2003 Server As a system administrator I am attempting to download a legitimate file from an Apache.org mirror site. However, my legitimate file download is being blocked by your browser insistence on using Micro$ofts Windoze Internet Exploder security settings!!!!!!! Next, I tried to download the latest Firefox 3.0.3 from your legitimate website. Again you blocked my download. !!!!! PLEASE DO NOT USE MICROSOFT SECURITY SETTINGS IN FIREFOX !!!!! !!!!! IF THIS CANNOT BE FIXED I WILL ABANDON FIREFOX !!!! !!!!! PLEASE FIX THIS SILLYNESS !!!! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
What do you mean ? Which security settings ?
Small chance that you mean Bug 385683 ?
No I think this is the issue: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/07/firefox_3_follows_ie7s_securit_1.html IE/Windows blurs the line as to which settings are browser (IE) settings and which are OS (Windows) settings by mixing them into one options dialog. This is evident because that options dialog is accessible from both IE and the Windows control panel. Mozilla contends that the settings in question are OS settings and thus should be followed by Firefox. What would be nice is if we could ask Microsoft to separate the browser and OS settings. Whether that be done by using two separate dialogs or separate tabs on the one dialog would be up to them.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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