Firefox: Unsafe for Business Applications

[elaimakulai]

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mas paspas ug mas safe ang FF... naa bya issue ron and windows ug IE

[Visual C#]

Sounds so odd why would someone configure firefox using local group policy

My previous post is a combination on how to use and deploy firefox effectively not just letting any users to install their own as this goes along with Domain & Local Policy settings.

However, to give you an answer... "YES"... we can control FIREFOX via GPO, but not on particular case you mean to say it here… if you are an Administrator and you are going to deploy FF over thousands of users, with offices kilometers away from each other, are you happy to deploy on that? How would you manage it effectively? it's a big NO NO Especially if you have some intranets or web based application such as SAP which need some credentials and certificates on browsers…

FF has a lot of development tools that allows you to hook on Windows successfully, there are even commercial sites offering this. hxxp://www.frontmotion.com/Firefox/ which they offers not only enabling Group Policy but packaging and extending components as well…

Security on browsers or let say "FIREFOX" for sake of the topic that we won't get far... is not impossible to apply. It's just a matter how the organization plan it... you can even control FF user profiles dumbing it to any of your live directories... plus adding some good Aanti-Virus, Network Firewalls at Fortiguard hxxp://www.fortiguardcenter.com/ which is available thru subscribtion or getting their own low cost hardware is granted helpful by all means of IT DISASTERS.

How is controlling Firefox via Group Policy 'odd'? If you are going to be using Firefox as either a primary corporate/work browser, or as the *only* browser (again, in a Windows environment), controlling it via Group Policy is a must. How else can you prevent users from installing their own extensions, changing whatever settings in Firefox (like let's say, oh, I don't know, configuring their own proxy servers?). Firefox also has its own 'update' capability, which is completely independent from Windows Update, which is again, supposed to be controlled by the company's IT department's weekly/bi-monthly security update schemes.