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My How-To: Enable Internet Downloading in FF3
Made Popular Jun 19 2008
If you have been having the same problem as me with FF3, then this is the place to find the answer. After constantly getting an error message for downloading some exe’s from various sites, I went and investigated my internet settings. I found the solution.
1) Click Start
2) Click Control Panel
3) Click Security Center
4) Click Internet Options
5) Go to the Security Tab
6) Click Custom Level
7) Find the Miscellaneous Section (Towards bottom)
8) Find Launching applications and unsafe files
9) Change to Prompt
If you are still having problems, check your AV or post a comment here.
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Aneez
Jun 18 2008
Mumbai,
India
HOW TO write such informative and helpful ’HOW TO’ articles as you do?? I’ve read each of those, and find each one good enough.
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Taylor Flatt
multiplayernetwork.n..
Jun 18 2008
Petersburg,
United States
Haha, thanks Aneez. I Appreciate it man.
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Will this make your computer more virus prone?
Well theoretically yes. But it would have been turned off before you downloaded Firefox. Before you downloaded the browser did you have this problem? Normally no, but if you did all you turn off is the security of downloading from almost every site on the net.
So long story short, this is setting this setting back to where it was before the download. Security risk or not, its user beware because you would be the one downloading the content, and this is just picking things out.
For reassurance, I had this problem and tried downloading a voice recorder from a site which was totally safe. It wouldn’t let me download it. So then I went snooping around in my settings and did what I posted above, and fixed it. To make sure I did the right thing, I scanned the download with kaspersky and mcfee. It was safe, and so really a lot of these errors aren’t correct.
I hope that answered your question.
So long story short, this is setting this setting back to where it was before the download. Security risk or not, its user beware because you would be the one downloading the content, and this is just picking things out.
For reassurance, I had this problem and tried downloading a voice recorder from a site which was totally safe. It wouldn’t let me download it. So then I went snooping around in my settings and did what I posted above, and fixed it. To make sure I did the right thing, I scanned the download with kaspersky and mcfee. It was safe, and so really a lot of these errors aren’t correct.
I hope that answered your question.
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