Re: Firefox as default browser in labs

[Bruce Barrett <bbarrett () CCRI EDU>]

All,

          Very interesting. Can anyone expound on some of the security
issues with Internet Explorer ? We support IE but not Firefox and would be
interested in any information comparing the two from a security standpoint.
Thanks much.


Bruce



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From: Ken Layng [mailto:kml18 () PSU EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 8:18 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Firefox as default browser in labs





William Custer wrote:

Michelle,

I understand that Penn State eliminated IE in December 2004.  You might
contact them.

We issued a RECOMMENDATION to use a browser other than internet explorer,
due to inherent vulnerabilities in IE, but we did not eliminate the browser
altogether.  That decision was left up to individual dept admins.    Our lab
machines offer both browsers, but Firefox is set to open links by default.




At 05:28 PM 5/9/2006, you wrote:



Because of the many security issues with Internet Explorer, I am considering
using Firefox as the default browser in our labs and eliminating access to
IE.  Are any of you doing this?  Did you run into any problems with
implementing it from a user rights, group policy, roaming profile, and
software conflict stand point?  What about allowing or not allowing students
to add themes or extensions?
Thanks,
Michelle Mueller
Mount Mary College
Milwaukee, WI





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