Recently I got rid of the issue that caused Mozilla Firefox to show a "Software Update Failed" dialog window every time I started the browser. Shortly after a new update of Firefox came available, and caused the same issue.
Read the rest of Mozilla Software Developer Failed.
hi tonymac,
From what I've read on bugzilla Firefox doesn't attempt to update anymore when it has limited access rights, which is a good thing.
I have no idea if it has been fixed in Thunderbird as well, but I guess yes because I guess the responsible code is shared between those two applications.
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If all users on a system can update software anytime a prompt appears on the screen then the system would soon be riddled with spyware etc. So the solution you propose is the only one - tell the user to ask the Administrator to do the update. Having said that, I work in awe of open-source concept and practical results. I also work in awe of those end-users who code a fix. Can you code a fix and submit it to Mozilla?