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Microsoft WinXP SP2 Blocks Downloads of Firefox?
n/a ^ | 3/13/05 | Myself

Posted on 03/13/2005 10:44:45 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts

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To: Golden Eagle
Nevermind the upheaval going on at Mozilla lately, couldn't have possibly been their fault, could it.

It could have been. That's why I opened a Microsoft Internet Explorer browser on a different machine. My first though was, in fact, that Mozilla.org had effed up and had dropped some links. You must have missed that part of my tale.

And I wouldn't call end-of-lifing an unneeded product, upheaval. Mozilla's capabilities are duplicated by Firefox and Thunderbird. Mozilla was destined for this the very day they split off the Thunderbird mail client and launched Firebird.

21 posted on 03/13/2005 7:37:15 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Try adjusting your tinfoil hat-- it might be askew.

I can't. I must leave it as it is. If I move it, I find that the propeller doesn't spin fast enough to drive the little generator that delivers my electro-shock dosage to the implants at the back of my skull.

I did however, find remnants of Norton's Internet Security software on the machine which, when removed, allowed the proper viewing of the webpage...as 'kingu' suggested. Case closed.

22 posted on 03/13/2005 7:42:48 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you decide to kick the tiger in the ass...you'd better be prepared to deal with the teeth.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
I run Firefox and dl'd it thri XP Pro SP2. Worked just fine.

However...I do have to shut down Zone Alarm Pro to make dl's with Firefox.

Also, just recently Mozillas fine email client, Thunderbird, mysteriously stopped working for me. It is a fine ptogram but it suddenly cannot connect with my ISP. Very weird.

23 posted on 03/14/2005 1:55:08 AM PST by Khurkris (This tagline is available on CD ROM)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

FYI...
I'm using WinXP SP2 also and I was able to see the green and blue boxes when I tried to use IE.


24 posted on 03/14/2005 10:04:33 AM PST by Dashing Dasher (What you can do, or think you can, begin it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

It's not evil on the part of Microsoft. The likely explanation is that the laptop is running some sort of content filtering software that blocks out the specific code Mozilla uses to display the DOWNLOAD NOW link.


25 posted on 03/14/2005 11:17:00 AM PST by Terpfen (New Democrat Party motto: les enfant terribles)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I didn't have any trouble.


26 posted on 03/14/2005 11:18:15 AM PST by js1138
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Looks like a stylesheet issue... I was able to download Firefox on machines with XP Home SP2 -- just click on the link "make the switch today".


27 posted on 03/14/2005 11:21:24 AM PST by kevkrom (If people are free to do as they wish, they are almost certain not to do as Utopian planners wish)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

I have XP SP2 and see no problems with the web page.


28 posted on 03/15/2005 7:21:37 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (Online backups for your business- http://backup.ntxsolutions.com)
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Ping!
29 posted on 03/17/2005 10:48:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, March 13, 2005.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

maybe Microsoft is just helping defend us all from godless communism:

Communist Software (you may have it)
Minus_273
Posted on 06/07/2004 6:11:34 AM PDT by minus_273
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149061/posts


30 posted on 03/17/2005 10:49:00 PM PST by SunkenCiv (last updated my FreeRepublic profile on Sunday, March 13, 2005.)
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