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Tried to download Font General for Facebook and Firefox prevented the site from asking me to download. Is it a "bad" program?

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hackmandj
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I was searching for emoticons on Facebook....and a link came up for Font General ...to use different type fonts on Facebook. I clicked on the download for FireFox and a small box popped up saying "FireFox has prevented this site (www.fontgeneral.com) from asking you to install software on your computer. There was a button that I could click to ALLOW....but I wanted to know if there was a possibility of the program being known to be unsafe.

I was searching for emoticons on Facebook....and a link came up for Font General ...to use different type fonts on Facebook. I clicked on the download for FireFox and a small box popped up saying "FireFox has prevented this site (www.fontgeneral.com) from asking you to install software on your computer. There was a button that I could click to ALLOW....but I wanted to know if there was a possibility of the program being known to be unsafe.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Firefox only comes with two sites pre-approved to install add-ons, because add-ons have full privileges and you want to be pretty careful about which ones you install.

The warning you got was a general notice. As far as I know, Mozilla doesn't test or even try to keep track of add-ons that don't come from the official add-ons site.

Facebook and web search would be good resources for further research.

hackmandj
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Thanks for the info. Any thoughts on the details I need to search for? It "SAYS" it is 100% safe, no Adware, no Spyware, no Viruses. Thanks again for your help!

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I'd look at other users' comments and see what they say positive and negative about it.

hackmandj
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Wow....can't seem to find ANY comments, other than people not sure how to use the program. I guess I'm going to give it a shot. I sure hope I don't regret this! Thank you for your assistance!