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- Sun Feb 24, 2008 3:11 pm
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14981
Re: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
I'll have to think about your profile request some more, as I'm not sure I fully understand all the issues... As for my request to disable all or some File Downloads, you are right that the list of extensions continues to grow. But I'm sure you could quickly come up with a list of 10 or so extension...
- Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:49 pm
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14981
Re: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
Where is the profile that you posted? Link?
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:10 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14981
Re: Poll: 'disable downloads' option in Firefox
Rather than an all or nothing setting, the ability to enter a list of file extensions that are allowed (or disabled) would be even more useful. e.g. Allow: .pdf, .doc, .xls, .ppt etc
- Wed Feb 20, 2008 8:05 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
Thanks for the survey!
So what is bugzilla?
So what is bugzilla?
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 4:36 pm
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
What is bugzilla? I tried bugzilla.com/org/net and found nothing of relevance... So what changed between Nov and now? Back in Nov you seemed to think some new code could do this... Can you post a survey as a sticky on this forum to gauge interest? I see almost 90 views have occurred on this thread (...
- Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:35 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
So does that mean you could add such a setting (to block downloads - all or by extensions)? How about Internet vs Intranet downloads - does FF distinguish between these two security zones like IE?
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:39 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
If FrontMotion essentially repackages the Mozilla FireFox browser, maybe I should be posting this enhancement request to Mozilla? I assume for FrontMotion to implement any AD setting, there must already be a similar configuration option built into FireFox? Or can you somehow introduce totally new se...
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:34 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
And if one really gets clever, you could borrow IE's approach and distinguish between Internet and Intranet downloads. Notice that this AD setting for IE is located at Windows Components->IE->Security Page->Internet Zone . That would address your concern about users downloading PDFs on their company...
- Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:24 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
Depends on how clever one is in implementing the download restrictions. Imagine AD settings such as: Disable Downloads: [ ] - All (disables ALL downloads) [x] - By Extension ".exe, .cmd, .bat ..." I'm sure you've seen settings like this that allow a great degree of granularity in AD. Add something l...
- Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:33 pm
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
That's really disappointing news for IT administrators. The ability to prevent downloads in IE (using an AD setting ) makes for a much more secure computer environment for businesses. Are you saying it cannot be done, or you are not interested in doing it? If the latter, why? I guess you are saying ...
- Thu Feb 14, 2008 2:29 pm
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
Re: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
What an inactive forum, I thought for sure an admin would chime in
- Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:44 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 16139
FFCE falls short: disable file downloads thru AD?
While FFCE is great in that it allows us to configure FF settings thru AD, there is a vital setting that is missing: the ability to DISABLE FILE DOWNLOADS ! As an IT consultant for many small and medium businesses, one of the very first security issues that I am asked about is whether I can block al...
- Fri Feb 08, 2008 6:50 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Hide Tools Menu
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10768
Re: Hide Tools Menu
I doubt it was intentional at all. It's simply a matter of poor design (security) on Microsoft's part, along with all the 3rd party software providers. Like I said, some software packages just do not tolerate running without local admin rights :( Getting back to my original post - will we ever be ab...
- Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:59 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Can FFCE be config'd to not allow users to download files?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4973
Hum.. Firefox doesn't appear to have a corresponding setting for that. May be some custom code is in order. Hi - any feeling as to whether this feature will get added - and if so, how soon might that be? I hate to have my clients using IE, but it does offer an easy way to prevent downloads thru AD....
- Tue Nov 20, 2007 8:37 am
- Forum: Feedback and troubleshooting
- Topic: Hide Tools Menu
- Replies: 7
- Views: 10768
I think a lot of IT admins still assign local admin rights to users, since a lot of software does not work properly otherwise. I have only recently stopped the practice of assigning local Administrator rights to the Domain Users group, and manually sort out the problems it causes with some software ...