Posted by Ed Mullen on 12/09/06 20:01

Ed Seedhouse wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2006 07:05:56 -0800, "Travis Newbury"
> <TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ed Seedhouse wrote:
>>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:22:36 +0100, "Marco" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>>>> I'd like to start a program from a html-page.
>>> Any web browser that allowed you to do that would be off the market in
>>> about 60 seconds because it would be an unacceptable security risk.
>> IE does this. It is not off the market..
>
> I don't believe it does.
>
>

It can run an executable from both a local and remote Web page. You
should get a prompt to choose saving the file or running it. If you
choose run, it will. Try it:

<http://mozilla.edmullen.net/moz_filetest.html>

Just press ESC after you run that file. ;-)

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