You can package Firefox with an extension that allows Group Policy support, or you can use FrontMotion who provide prepackaged MSI's with GPO Support. Alternatively you can also lock settings in the firefox.js file, that's not quite as easy to manage as Group Policy as you need to have a deployment mechanism in place for it. (Go Zenworks!)phongn wrote:Probably not: Firefox is missing a lot of the usual "enterprise" management features that Group Policy allows.Uraniun235 wrote:Or they could just install Firefox, and keep IE6 for the badly-designed web app.Faqa wrote:When a lot of folks that were used to checking their Gmail from the office can't do it anymore, they can pressure IT to "make it work again". Given that the only solution ends up being to upgrade the browser.... yeah.
Deploying extensions gets a little tricky as you often have to faff around with the compatibility settings to get them to work outside of the randomly named profile folder that firefox likes to make. Then you've got the problem of keeping it updated, which typically involves frequent repackaging, making the excercise more expensive then IE through WSUS which gets updates out to as many PCs as you want in just a few clicks.
