Sunday, June 03, 2007

Windows Vista, Firefox, and User Account Control

I just upgraded Firefox from 2.0.0.3 to 2.0.0.4 and, after the upgrade, an annoying behavior happen everytime I run the Firefox: User Account Control of Windows Vista always pop up. This was never been the case before the upgrade. Feeling annoyed and curious, I search information from the web and last night I found out why. After the upgrade, the the Firefox was set to Run As Administrator, that is why User Account Control keeps pop up when you run it. What need to do is to remove that setting, and Firefox will perform as per normal.

To remove the Run As Administrator setting, right-click on the Firefox shortcut or Firefox.exe file in '\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\' folder, the select 'Properties', click on 'Advanced...' button then make sure 'Run As Administrator' option is not selected. Then select 'Compatibility' tab and make sure 'Run this program as an administrator' option under 'Privilege Level' section is not selected, do the same thing for same setting under 'Show settings for all users' button.

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