Re: [school-discuss] Ditching IE?

[adam@alanne.com]

> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:13, Adam Crosby wrote:
>> Does any other webbrowser come with a lockdown/customization and
>> distribution kit like the IEAK?
>
> A combination of the KDE Kiosk Administration tools and forcing the
> traffic through Squid and some filters should prove much more
> effective. http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kiosktool.php
>
> KDE does exist for MS-Windows, but it would be a brave sysadmin who
> implemented it across a whole school that way. (-:
>
> Cheers; Leon
>

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