Re: How do I prevent shortcuts from being installed?

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How do I prevent shortcuts from being installed?
\ Ham Pastrami (8 Aug 2007)
. \ Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo (8 Aug 2007)
. \ Ralph Fox (9 Aug 2007)

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Subject:	Re: How do I prevent shortcuts from being installed?
Group:	Mozilla-support-firefox
From:	Ralph Fox
Date:	9 Aug 2007

On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:25:08 -0700, in message <UfadnSb3ZbIi3yfbnZ2dnUVZ_tuonZ2d>,
Ham Pastrami wrote:

> I visited a website (just went to the page and didn't click on anything) and
> an url shortcut was placed on my Windows desktop. Is there a setting in
> Firefox to stop this from happening?

I don't believe this problem has been heard of before. That means
someone would need to examine the site to figure out how it might
have done such a thing. What's the URL?

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