[ale] Firefox & IE ... yada yada yada

Jonathan Rickman jdr at xcorps.net
Tue Sep 21 17:08:57 EDT 2004


> To me this represents a good oppty for the Mozilla dev team 
> to create an "iexplore.exe" replacement that launches firefox 
> and handles all the OLE crap that IE resolves for the 
> underlying OS.  Sound too extreme?

Windows File Protection would prevent the replacement of the executable, so
you'd have to open up an entirely worse security hole (disabling WFP and sig
checking) just to replace one insecure browser with another. 

--
Jonathan



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