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Re: [school-discuss] Ditching IE?



adam@alanne.com wrote:
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The amount of overhead and heartache involved with deploying KDE across
our ~20K desktops is almost unthinkable.  So is migrating to linux on the
desktop,  for the forseeable future.  I was referred to the
comments/discussion on the linked article about 'using another browser'
from the original email, and someone there asked my same question.  The
only answer I saw was a hack one guy wrote with a script to modify
perfs.js whenever someone logged in.
I have a very strong dislike for scripts, and having to write my own
customizer to lock down Firefox isn't a replacement for IEAK.  IEAK is
extremely simple to use and works very effectively for a number of things
(pre-importing our OrgCA as a trusted SSL root, setting bookmarks,
eliminating the ability to SEE settings, let alone change them.
I have not found anything close to that for FireFox or another non-IE
browser.  Netscape used to offer soemthing along the lines backin the
mid-90's, but it cost a significant amount of cash, and was no where near
as easy to use.  I'll keep looking though, thanks for everyone's input.

--
Adam
This is the top link of a google search for "mozilla customization", the opening paragraph is as follows:

These pages describes how to customize mozilla for multi-user community. In the scenario described described, a bunch of client workstations running Windows access a Linux Samba server, on which the user's home directories are stored (under drive H:). Our goal is to make it possible to automatically generate a Mozilla configuration on the server for each user as soon as he is created. Moreover, we want to lock certain settings, so that users cannot change them.

http://www.alain.knaff.lu/howto/MozillaCustomization/

As for administrating 20k desktops while harboring, "a very strong dislike for scripts", best of luck.

- cameron