From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in firefox-36.0?
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:34:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5508E41C.9060905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <meajj5$rou$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 03/17/2015 06:15 PM, walt wrote:
> On 03/17/2015 05:47 PM, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> Mozilla installs a
>> privileged service that auto updates its software.
>
> Interesting. I didn't know about 'privileged services' in Windows.
> I hope M$ grants these 'privileges' carefully.
You mean the user. Any app can install a service like that if the user
lets them. I'm assuming Mozilla's service runs as a SYSTEM user so it
can modify things, but I've never cared enough to look. I always remove
the Mozilla Maintenance Service and update manually.
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-18 2:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-17 23:49 [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in firefox-36.0? walt
2015-03-18 0:47 ` Daniel Frey
2015-03-18 1:15 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-03-18 2:34 ` Daniel Frey [this message]
2015-03-18 19:42 ` »Q«
2015-03-18 1:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Zhu Sha Zang
2015-03-18 3:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-18 6:56 ` Mick
2015-03-18 4:48 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-18 23:41 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2015-03-18 23:46 ` Daniel Frey
2015-03-19 1:06 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-19 10:57 ` walt
2015-03-19 15:29 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2015-03-19 7:26 ` Marc Joliet
2015-03-20 0:15 ` »Q«
2015-03-21 0:18 ` walt
2015-03-21 3:37 ` »Q«
2015-03-24 6:52 ` Mick
2015-03-24 9:36 ` Peter Humphrey
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