[WEB4LIB] Re: Firefox upgrades and Flash

[Pearson Dana]

We're stuck with Fortres 101 for now, so DeepFreeze or
similar approaches are not an option.

I was hoping someone knew why Flash does not survice
upgrades, if that is what is happening.  It's not a
major problem but we'd like to look like we know what
we're doing and not have to move people until Flash
can be reinstalled.  Our tech guy thinks we lose it
during mozilla upgrades that Fortres appears to allow.
 We don't loose other plugins.

Thanks, dana

Dana Pearson, MLIS
Tech Systems, Inc.
dana.pearson at techsystemsinc.net

--- "James B. Lenze" <jlenze at tln.lib.mi.us> wrote:

> 
> 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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