Happiness is:

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

Firefoxing an entire company.

They said they wanted a "Final solution for all the crap that keeps getting on these things"

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[zig-mover.livejournal.com]

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[cumaeansibyl.livejournal.com]

That'd make a great slogan.

"Firefox: Implementing the Final Solution."

... wait a sec...

[(Anonymous)]

Firefox with passwords NOT saved.
And make people's IE homepage a local htm file that says, "Don't use Internet Explorer unless you cannot display the page correctly in Mozilla" or some such.
And turn off unnecessary services if Win2000/XP.
And secure the Local Policy settings.
And load SpywareBlaster.
And load SpyBot/TeaTimer.
And load a personal firewall (I'd recommend Agnitum Outpost)

[torkell]

For good measure, chainsaw their network card and floppy drive, and kill any USB ports. That'll stop the nasties :D

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

Let me know how this goes. I'd love to roll out Firefox on the 500 desktops I manage.

I hate IE, but the way you can control it all through AD is the only thing that keeps me from migrating everyone over.

(Yeah, logon scripts and stuff - I don't know enough about Firefox profiles and stuff yet to faff with that... too busy with other things - like patching the Windows boxes. :P)

In a big corporate environment...

[coyoteden.livejournal.com]

I'd say stick with IE, block stuff at the firewalls if you can, and hold tight until XP SP2 hits. IE security really is tight in SP2. The managability of IE is a good reason to keep it on the corporate desktop.

The place I'm talking about is so bad cause the users have free reign over where they go on the web, and they trade porn and joke sites all damn day.

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

We already have a powerful Squid/Dansguardian based caching/filtering server in place that runs Linux. I work with two other guys and they're both Windows guys (who recently converted to Firefox with my... constant harrassment), so it's up to me to manage that.

Does a great job at blocking everything. Since I work in a school we need rather restrictive set of policies - generally pupils can't install anything onto the workstation anyway, but this filter blocks nearly 99% of all downloads (based on extensions), so generally we only have to worry about worms and stuff getting past our WANs firewall (which isn't under our control).

[torkell]

Would this filter be something called Censornet? We used it at my school, and it's generally effective (especially when combined with the VNC/CtrlF5 trick). Since it's used as the router/gateway for the network, it also stops anyone bypassing it by removing the proxy server from IE (which is kinda hard to do when that part is locked and controlled by a config script).

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

No, our filter is DansGuardian (http://dansguardian.org).

What does CTRL+F5 do on VNC? We use VNC extensively, but I don't remember a trick with that?

Our computers are locked down through Active Directory, so the kids can't get to their proxy settings anyway. Wish we were running Linux though... That'd stop the little bastards.

[thebutler.livejournal.com]

I'd assume you block a page in the filter, VNC to the machine that was accessing it, and ctrl-F5 to force it to block.

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Nice. I rolled Firefox out all over my house. In fact, I finally got my mom to switch from Outlook Express to Thunderbird (she'd been using Firebird/Firefox for a while).

My dad still hates both and wants Outlook Express / IE back on his laptop (i won't let him)

-A

*round of applause*

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

Congratulations, sir.

Have a beverage of your choice.

*envious*