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Yesterday while doing my usually rounds which include checking out Digg, is saw a Digg post about Vista blocking Firefox.
Initial reaction, What The …., then I forgot about it as I went back to checking sites and doing some additional research on IE Defender.
So, today here I am, back to what in the world is going on with Microsoft and blocking Firefox. Is there some sort of attempt to keep competing browsers, not running in Windows Protected mode, from accessing the internet? Nope, not even close.
Larry Osterman does a much better job of explaining what is going on, then I ever could. You can read about it in his blog post: Chris Pirillo’s annoyed by the Windows Firewall prompt
Information of how to configure the Windows Firewall, on both XP and Vista, for Firefox can be found in the Mozilla Support Tutorial Configuring Windows Firewall
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9:59 pm - November 29th, 2008
Hey Shadow,
The Mozilla Support link doesn’t work for me, it asks for a log in.
You can update it to:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-.....s+Firewall
- Louis H
8:49 am - November 30th, 2008
Louis, thank you for the information. The Mozilla Support link has been updated to point to the correct page.