Re: Firefox as default browser in labs

["Howell, Paul" <grue () UMICH EDU>]

IETab would be helpful to Firefox browsers hitting web pages that work
with IE only, such as OWA, but I don't think it would be used by say the
Outlook fat client when opening an HTML message.  Outlook would still
use the MS IE engine to render the HTML.

Or have you found differently?

< paul



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        From: Ken Layng [mailto:kml18 () PSU EDU] 
        Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 4:09 PM
        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
        Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firefox as default browser in labs
        
        
        Firefox has a very nice extension called "IETab", which enables
a user to define certain pages or sites to open via an internal IE
engine by default - VERY nice.  It also has a toggle button which allows
the user to render these either way on the fly.  Moreover, you can
create an msi package with a sub-set of extensions, and deploy those to
users and labs via GPO.  I virtually never open IE anymore - even for MS
updates and sites that require IE.
        
        Howell, Paul wrote: 

                I think the issue is a little worse than just 3rd party
apps.  Most MS
                products use the IE engine to render HTML.  This being
the case, you
                still have to apply all IE patches to ensure that the
engine is update
                to date for products such as office and outlook.
                
                Using Firefox instead of IE just means that instead of
one piece of
                software that you have to maintain, you now have two
that must be
                maintained.  
                
                Is that really what you wanted to do?
                
                < paul
                
                
                  

                        -----Original Message-----
                        From: Jeff Kell [mailto:jeff-kell () UTC EDU] 
                        Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 3:36 PM
                        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
                        Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firefox as default
browser in labs
                        
                        Vicky Walker wrote:
                            

                                Basically, you need to be careful about
any purchased 
                                      

                        products before
                            

                                eliminating IE altogether. 
                                      

                        and/or, be careful about any future purchased
products that 
                        *require* IE :-)
                        
                        Jeff
                        
                            

                
                
                
                  


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