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 [[User:Cognominal|Cognominal]] 14:20, 3 Jun 2005 (PDT)
+Part of the plan worries me, to quote the first paragraph:
+"Revise the existing toolkit code which downloads XPI updates. Provide a silent    mode that will be used for security updates. Do this only if the user has agreed (via some UI during installation perhaps) and only if the user has write permission to the installation directory. We don't want this update system to get in the way of RPM or MSI based solutions, etc."
+Picture the large microsoft windows running company where employees are users, not even "power users", and don't have write permission to the installation directory. The quoted paragraph seems to specifically exclude the clients automatically upgrading. Now, I think the way other programs running under windows get around the necessary priviledge elevation, is by running a "service" as a user with rights to the installation directory, e.g. system, or administrator, which the client running as user can connect to. Without this, there doesn't seem to be a way of managing firefox without visiting each an every computer it is installed on.