Evolution Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Does anyone know if the Firefox team is planning on adding protected-mode to its browser anytime soon? Right now in Vista it seems like IE7 is really the only choice due to low-rights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 in the mean time you could edit the restriction policies by running 'secpol.msc' and going to Software Restriction Policies -> Additional Rules -> right click -> new path rule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jzilla Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 Does anyone know if the Firefox team is planning on adding protected-mode to its browser anytime soon? Right now in Vista it seems like IE7 is really the only choice due to low-rights. If I am reading you right, the Low Privilege/Protected Mode will not be implemented until Firefox 4.0 .. http://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted December 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2007 Can somebody please tell me, what exactly is the point in this protected mode? What does it do and do we really need it? Is it a reason to use IE over FF?? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Unless you run Firefox as admin, it's protected. It won't run ActiveX, so what's the problem? :unsure: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Can somebody please tell me, what exactly is the point in this protected mode? What does it do and do we really need it? Is it a reason to use IE over FF??Thanks. It's basically an implementation of a sandbox for your browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted December 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2007 Unless you run Firefox as admin, it's protected. It won't run ActiveX, so what's the problem? :unsure: Hmmmm, I am running it as Admin, because some fool in my flat, who knows more about computers than me, told me to stop using a 'Standard' user account and use an 'Administrator' one as my main one... does that matter? What could happen if I'm using Firefox with an Adminstrator account? It's basically an implementation of a sandbox for your browser. Ah, thank you. I can't really remember what a sandbox is though? Lol. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Long Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 Ah, thank you. I can't really remember what a sandbox is though? Lol. Sorry. A virtual playground for your applications. If something does go wrong, it's only confined to a very small boundary as opposed to your entire system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted December 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2007 Thank you for the explanation, it does make sense to me now. Ah well, I'll just have to wait for Firefox 4 in a couple of years ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted December 28, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 28, 2007 Easy fix, get a copy of Sandboxie, and run Firefox through that. ActiveX not running (unless you install the embedding plugin) helps, but it's the bugs that allow code to run which do the real damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsnotabigtruck Posted December 28, 2007 Share Posted December 28, 2007 If UAC is on, your Firefox install is already running as non-admin, so you have nothing to worry about. If you have UAC off, turn it on - it's a minor inconvenience for a whole lot of security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calum Veteran Posted December 29, 2007 Veteran Share Posted December 29, 2007 Cool. Thanks, I have UAC turned on so that's all cool. :p This Sandboxie thing sounds interesting though, I might as well check it out even if I decide I'm never going to use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evolution Posted December 29, 2007 Author Share Posted December 29, 2007 UAC confines it to the user.... so if there is a firefox exploit.... all of the local files for the user could be destroyed... whereas I think with low rights.... only the app can be screwed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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