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Firefox3 uses Internet Explorer settings from the Control Panel. This is just stupid. If I wanted IE settings to be used, I’d run IE!!!

For example, I have IE setup to be very safe for the “Internet Zone”. This is to prevent noobs who don’t know anything from causing my machine to be compromised by stupid surfing. I don’t want these settings shared between IE and Firefox. Why should I have to enable file downloads for IE when I only want file downloads to work in Firefox?

Thanks Mozilla team. Genius at work.

You may experience this problem if the Windows option for Launching applications and unsafe files is disabled. To fix this:

1. Start → Settings → Internet Options
2. Select the Security tab.
3. Select the Internet zone and click the Custom level … button.
4. Scroll down to the option, Launching applications and unsafe files (under “Miscellaneous”).
5. Select Prompt (Recommended).
6. Click the OK button.