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Why does Iinternet Explorer stop the download of Fire Fox 5

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Atso
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I have installed on my PC Internet Explorer. After reading and listening to my colleagues I decided to use Firefox 5. Each time i go through the process of dwonloading a screen appears and tell me that IE will not allow the download for security reasons. Can you advise me how to overcome this problem. Regards David

I have installed on my PC Internet Explorer. After reading and listening to my colleagues I decided to use Firefox 5. Each time i go through the process of dwonloading a screen appears and tell me that IE will not allow the download for security reasons. Can you advise me how to overcome this problem. Regards David

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the-edmeister
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Change the Security Level in the Control Panel > Internet Options to Medium so you can download Firefox without Windows objecting.

Atso
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I altered the security option to medium but whenever I tried to download Firefox the pop up screen appeared telling me that IE for security reasons stopped the download! Any other suggestions would be welcome. Atso

wstfgl
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I'm having the same problem - I've set every security setting to low or none, enabled downloads, checked my windows and IE settings... this is driving me crazy.

Worst thing is that I don't have a choice - my university's remote learning software is only compatible with firefox. I like firefox, but installing it on a work PC, where everything is about Microsoft, is proving to be a huge time drain.

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