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Firefox Skirts Windows Security Feature to Make Silent Updates Happen
« on: April 23, 2012, 12:17:18 PM »
Computerworld - Mozilla will ship Firefox 12 tomorrow with a key component of its years-long silent update project.

Firefox 12, which got the green light from Mozilla last week, is slated to release on Tuesday, April 24.

Among the changes to Firefox 12, the most noticeable to Windows users will be the disappearance of the UAC, or "user account control," prompt on Vista and Windows 7 during updates.

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Re: Firefox Skirts Windows Security Feature to Make Silent Updates Happen
« Reply #1 on: April 23, 2012, 12:34:08 PM »
It's actually available already today. Here. Click the "Download latest version" link. Others are still the old beta releases.
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Re: Firefox Skirts Windows Security Feature to Make Silent Updates Happen
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2012, 12:46:13 PM »
I usually wait for the internal updater to let me know. It's still telling me I have the latest version, so I'm in no hurry.
More info here: http://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-12-released
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Re: Firefox Skirts Windows Security Feature to Make Silent Updates Happen
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2012, 06:09:37 PM »
It was actually the hippo update checker that tipped me off first thing this morning.
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