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Firefox Banned at PBA

wow don't be so stupid.

you are in a corporate environment that needs to regulate its network and end users pcs for security and to ensure idiots like you do your work instead of farting around with minesweeper and downloading comet cursor.

How would you "forcibly" remove software? Did you yell at it?

I personally find it goes very easily if you use add/remove.

Corporate environments that must regulate users do not need to mandate a browser -- IE -- that is inherently less secure than the ones they are banning! You are obviously one of these Corporate Nazis that demand absolute compliance. YOU are the one who is an idiot!

Robert, Oppressed by Corporate Idiots in Atlanta

reply to electric_dsl
Firefox and all other "contraband" software was removed remotely by a network administrator using VNC. At no point were any Firefox users asked what they they thought about this. At no point has any research been brought to bear. It is simply totalitarianism, Do What I Say and Don't Ask Any Questions Or Else! Since you support these tactics, you are one of the Corporate Nazis. I have to deal with people like YOU every day, unfortunately!

Robert

meh what can I say shit happens.

Although I am not sure if calling me a "Nazi" is accurate as I don't gas any Jews in my day to day activities. There are a few idiots that think they know everything about computers and should be able to install what they want, when they want and tell me how to run the network, I wouldn't mind gassing them, however we have no gas chambers near the office. Either way I am pretty sure they aren't jewish.

I do occasionally ask the employees to follow the computer use policy they accept every time they login. This allows us to provide a consistant, controlled, secure profile that we can easily fix and if need be replace.

After all it is a work environment, and occasionally we like our employees to get work done not to mention allow myself to concentrate on important computer things.

I apologize for calling you a Nazi, since you apparently have not gassed anyone for non-compliance, yet.

If the IT administrator had issued a memo detailing exactly why he does not approve of Mozilla or any other browser but IE, then we might not have felt so oppressed. Instead, he issued a decree declaring that no form of Mozilla or any other alternative browser shall be installed or used. This decree was issued AFTER he had already remotely uninstalled Mozilla from every computer in the complex ... which was most of them.

I hope now you can understand why I feel so oppressed. It feels like bullying, and I'd say that's exactly what it is. It is a purely Machiavellian concept. Don't ever explain anything or ask for comments on anything, just issue orders.

Robert, Bullied in Atlanta

Currently, Firefox and Mozilla offer no method for centralized security-control and deployment/updating, things that are crucial for a corporate-network environment. I would say that if the IT staff felt it necessary to remove Firefox, they probably had a valid reason for doing so. I do feel for you, having to use IE. I find it clunky at best, downright primitive at worst. Firefox, along with a nice, customized user-environment, makes browsing so much more enjoyable and efficient than IE. Safer too.

reply to rwhubert
this whole battle of browsers is very entertaining. I dont understand the emotional attachment. I use firefox just to avoid spyware, virus etc. The tabbed browsing is pretty cool, but wouldnt have made me switch. As far as a company deciding what software you run....well whose computer is it anyway? How would you like it if your employer could just decide to load some software on your home PC....personal property and rights should extend both ways