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Authored by: jriskin on Oct 29, '03 06:42:48PM

While I agree that you are probably right, there intention was probably to move responsibility to the applications, I think its a bad idea. Here is why...

On windows rogue applications OFTEN decide that they are now the owner of some protocol or file type. While possibly convenient, I really think for security reasons it should require either a popup user window authorization or even admin authorization to do it.

I think what you mentioned about expanding the preference to include all mime types/protocols is good. But you should also add the authorization pop-ups so that applications could make it a bit more seamless. In the long run this would provide a good balance of seamless operation plus secuirty.



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