[WEB4LIB] Firefox upgrades and Flash

[James B. Lenze]

Have you thought of using DeepFreeze?  If you suspect that a patron has
been installing unwanted programs/upgrades you can just reboot and all the
changes are forgotten.  (Unless I am mistaken.)

-- 
James B. Lenze, TechnoBoss
Garden City Library

PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS:
jlenze at garden-city.lib.mi.us

On Tue, February 1, 2005 14:55, Pearson Dana said:
> Our library adopted Firebird (Firefox) a year or so
> ago for our public access machines.  One problem we
> have not solved yet is the loss of the Flash plugin
> when upgrading to newer versions.  Our patrons often
> initiate the upgrade when they find themselves at the
> mozilla site or when they see a "click here to
> download the plugin" on a web page.  We generally move
> someone to another machine until we can reinstall
> Flash.  Although we use Fortres 101 to lock the
> machines down, i.e., to prevent application installs,
> upgrades to Firefox are apparently possible; Flash
> installation requires disabling Fortres and an
> administrative login.
>
> Can anyone suggest a solution to this minor problem?
>
> Thanks, dana
>
> Dana Pearson, MLIS
> Tech Systems, Inc.
> dpearson at techsystemsinc.net
>
>
>
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