Can firefox 19 allow installation of software from web sites or must it always save files to your computer first
Can firefox 19 allow installation of software from web sites or must it always save files to your computer first
Chosen solution
by cor-elYou will have to save files to your computer before running them.
That way your security software can scan the file to see if it is safe.
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.6 r602
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 11.0.01
- Citrix Receiver Plugin (Win32)
- NVIDIA 3D Vision Streaming plugin for Mozilla browsers
- NVIDIA 3D Vision plugin for Mozilla browsers
- 5.1.10411.0
- The plug-in allows you to open and edit files using Microsoft Office applications
- Office Authorization plug-in for NPAPI browsers
Application
- Firefox 19.0
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
- Support URL: http://support.mozilla.org/1/firefox/19.0/WINNT/en-US/
Extensions
- Troubleshooter 1.0a
- Zotero 3.0.14
- IDS_SS_NAME IDS_SS_VERSION (Inactive)
Javascript
- incrementalGCEnabled: True
Graphics
- adapterDescription: Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000
- adapterDescription2: NVIDIA Quadro 2000M
- adapterDeviceID: 0x0126
- adapterDeviceID2: 0x0dda
- adapterDrivers: igdumd64 igd10umd64 igd10umd64 igdumd32 igd10umd32 igd10umd32
- adapterDrivers2: nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
- adapterRAM: Unknown
- adapterRAM2: 2048
- adapterVendorID: 0x8086
- adapterVendorID2: 0x10de
- direct2DEnabled: True
- directWriteEnabled: True
- directWriteVersion: 6.2.9200.16492
- driverDate: 9-26-2012
- driverDate2: 5-10-2012
- driverVersion: 9.17.10.2867
- driverVersion2: 8.17.12.9679
- info: {u'AzureContentBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureCanvasBackend': u'direct2d', u'AzureFallbackCanvasBackend': u'cairo'}
- isGPU2Active: False
- numAcceleratedWindows: 2
- numTotalWindows: 2
- webglRenderer: Google Inc. -- ANGLE (Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000)
- windowLayerManagerType: Direct3D 10
Modified Preferences
- browser.cache.disk.capacity: 358400
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.first_run: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size.use_old_max: False
- browser.cache.disk.smart_size_cached_value: 358400
- browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion: 4
- browser.startup.homepage: https://webmail.alaska.gov/OWA/auth/logon.aspx?replaceCurrent=1&url=https%3a%2f%2fwebmail.alaska.gov%2fOWA%2f
- browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID: 20130215130331
- browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone: 19.0
- dom.mozApps.used: True
- extensions.lastAppVersion: 19.0
- gfx.direct3d.prefer_10_1: True
- network.cookie.prefsMigrated: True
- places.database.lastMaintenance: 1362603550
- places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages: 104858
- plugin.disable_full_page_plugin_for_types: application/pdf
- privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs: True
Misc
- User JS: No
- Accessibility: No
Chosen Solution
You will have to save files to your computer before running them.
That way your security software can scan the file to see if it is safe.
Solution chosen