Daniel <dan...@albury.net.spam.au> writes:

> On 22/05/2017 11:21 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> Daniel <dan...@albury.net.spam.au> writes:
>>
>>> On 22/05/2017 3:09 AM, Richmond wrote:
>>>> Daniel <dan...@albury.net.spam.au> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Yeap, on Linux, I install my SeaMonkey in my /home/Internet/SeaMonkey
>>>>> location.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think it's better to put it somewhere which is read only, or change
>>>> the permissions to read only.
>>>>
>>> Why would you need the program to be "read only"??
>>
>> So that it cannot be modified by anything that gets into the browser,
>> i.e. anything that exploits a vulnerability.
>>
> So then you are wanting to install it as SuperUser (su) rather than as User,
> surely!!

Yes. That's normal practice isn't it? Certainly on linux. But even
Windows stops "Program Files" being modified by non-admin users.

I always put seamonkey in /usr/local owned by root, read/execute only
access to group and world.
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