While I have not tried this, I have heard (perhaps from this list?) that if the user has write permission to the Firefox directory (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox), then the user will still get the autoupdate functionality, with or without admin rights.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysad...@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:20:19 -0800 Subject: Re: Firefox > On 18 Dec 2009 at 10:45, David Lum wrote: > > > Does anyone know how to force Firefox Autoupdate to be on? I found an > old > > (2007) article about deploying Firefox to the enterprise, but it´s not > quite > > what I was looking for. > > It's on by default, but if your users aren't local administrators it will > never > run because it requires admin rights. Is that what seems to be happening to > > you? > > -- > Angus Scott-Fleming > GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona > 1-520-290-5038 > +-----------------------------------+ > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
