When a company fails to disclose a location to which bugs in its products can be sent, I’ve made it a habit of posting them here instead. Somehow, this strategy tends to get a response. Also, this helps others avoid going through what I had to in order to debug the problem.<\/p>\n
I recently purchased a new HP laptop with an embedded Validity fingerprint reader. Upon installing Firefox, I noticed that executable links were not working properly – they were not being followed. At first, I chalked this up to AVG 8, as it has some new (buggy and slow) “linkscan” feature, but uninstalling and reinstalling AVG and Firefox yielded no luck.<\/p>\n
Finally, I looked on the list of add-ons to see whether there was something there that could be causing this problem. DigitalPersona’s add-on was the only one present.<\/p>\n
I tried disabling it and suddenly the links were working again. Re-enabling it caused them to stop once more.<\/p>\n
Thus, there is something in the DigitalPersona Firefox extension that is causing the browser to cease following executable links.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, right clicking and selecting “save as…” still works, so I’ll use that as a workaround for the time being.<\/p>\n
And to DigitalPersona: Provide a forum for users to submit bugs or those bugs will not only never reach you directly, but will be scattered all over the Internet for everyone to read. One way or another, people post them. Far better for you that they reach your ears first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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