Internet Security and Programming

Firefox 3 users, who also have jacked up the security settings on Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 to their most paranoid level, may find it trickier to download files with Firefox due to key changes recently made by Mozilla. In a Security Fix Live chat last Friday, a reader complained he or she couldn’t download any file in Firefox unless she reduced the security settings in IE7. “I usually leave IE at high settings since I don’t routinely use it….I tried reducing all the security settings in Firefox to make sure it wasn’t the cause. And the problem exists without using noscript. Only reducing settings in IE allows downloads.” An alert reader called me on my advice to this questioner, directing my attention to a heated discussion thread on the subject at DSL Reports that I had actually read a few weeks prior (doh!). Here’s what’s happening, according to Mozilla: [...]

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