John Andersen schrieb:
On Sunday 24 September 2006 14:28, Keith Roberts wrote:
I prefer the automatic update feature of Firefox. This gets the updates 'in the background' as soon as they are released on the mozilla site. If you look under 'Edit->Preferences->Advanced-Update' you can set the automatic updates for Firefox from there.
Hmmmm, that has all the appeal of a camel's nose under the tent flap.
Seriously... Lets take this to the logical extreme and have every package perform its own upgrades. Just how soon will it be before someone exploits that, and "out-windows" Microsoft?
I'm not expressing any particular distrust of the firefox group, just the idea in general.
especially since this only works if you run firefox as root (or any other user with write permissions to the installation directory). Seems that this guy does. bad idea. bye, MH -- Die unaufgeforderte Zusendung einer Werbemail an Privatleute verstößt gegen §1 UWG und §823 I BGB (Beschluß des LG Berlin vom 2.8.1998 Az: 16 O 201/98). Jede kommerzielle Nutzung der übermittelten persönlichen Daten sowie deren Weitergabe an Dritte ist ausdrücklich untersagt!