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---- Switching 750 PC's to Firefox


StupidScript - 8:26 pm on Dec 23, 2004 (gmt 0)


If you have clients that use sites that fit your description (i.e. ActiveX, other win-only stuff), then only MSIE will be able to handle them.

To keep it as easy as possible, perhaps you should simply rename iexplore.exe to iexplore.ex_ (not a problem for a batch file) until you discover which sites do not work with FF/NN and which users really need to use those sites.

Say, your CFO goes to Bank of America's site once per month, and FF won't handle all of the IIS transactions properly. You then rename the executable on that client, and modify "hosts" to allow only BoA. Add to the list as new sites are discovered.

(I don't think FF uses "hosts", does it? Please correct me if I'm in error ... )

<edit>PS: We are migrating our office to FF, as well. Our major stumbling block is high-level user indignance (They say OK but keep using IE and won't let me disable it.) We successfully migrated everyone over to Thunderbird email client a couple of weeks ago, and everyone loves it ... much better/safer than Outlook!</edit>

[edited by: StupidScript at 9:10 pm (utc) on Dec. 23, 2004]


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