UAC and Firefox

paul1980 · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:22

Hi,

I am experiencing a rather strange problem. I have UAC turned ON and I also have the latest version of firefox.

All of a sudden whenever I click on the Firefox icon to open it I am getting the old UAC message pop up where I need to press continue to get in. This has become very annoying.

My gripe is that this has only just started happening today. I have always had UAC turned on and its never done it before!!!!!

Anyone know why its doing it now? I have not changed anything in my setup!!!
Also can I stop it without turning UAC off?

tolien · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:45

What happens when you click continue?
The only reason it should fire a UAC prompt is if it's installing an update.

mattyrigby00 · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:08

turn UAC off, its pointless.

paul1980 · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:11

I managed to fix this. I needed to right click on the Firefox shortcut and go into properties.

In the compatibility menu I had to ensure "Run this program as administrator" was UNTICKED.
It also needs unticking in the "show settings for all users part" just below there aswell

Problem solved

knowlesy · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:18

uac ???

mattyrigby00 · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:35

knowlesy said:
uac ???

a "feature" in vista which basically makes you have to confirm every click you make.

Final8y · 25 Jul 2007 at 22:59

mattyrigby00 said:
turn UAC off, its pointless.

I would have to totally disagree.
But it can be annoying.
It makes it very hard for viruses to install things quietly with out you knowing for the time being.
It also makes it hard for you to delete important files in the OS partition by mistake which i see happen allot because the person thought that it was for a different purpose beside many others.

Final8y · 25 Jul 2007 at 23:01

Double post

Final8y · 25 Jul 2007 at 23:02

mattyrigby00 said:
a "feature" in vista which basically makes you have to confirm every click you make.

I don't have to confirm every click i make.
Only some stuff that needs administrator level access to run.
Turn off UAC & a virus can run at administrator level access & you would not have a clue until its way to late.
But then again i don't have any 3rd party anti virus running yet.

knowlesy · 25 Jul 2007 at 23:05

mattyrigby00 said:
a "feature" in vista which basically makes you have to confirm every click you make.

ahhh the thing they stole from winpatrol

Final8y · 25 Jul 2007 at 23:12

paul1980 said:
I managed to fix this. I needed to right click on the Firefox shortcut and go into properties.

In the compatibility menu I had to ensure "Run this program as administrator" was UNTICKED.
It also needs unticking in the "show settings for all users part" just below there aswell

Problem solved

You really should not get UAC popup or have to run as adimin for firefox.
Something up, firefox should not be trying to access anything from the OS that needs that level for startup.
A plugin problem maybe ?