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Getting Your Company to Migrate from IE?

Posted by Cliff on from the stemming-the-exploit-flow dept.

RunningFerreT asks: "With all the recent warnings and recommendations on migrating from MSIE, I have come across a serious problem. The company for which I work doesn't want to, even after being informed of all the exploits and problems with Internet Explorer. Having the boss 'try out' Firefox isn't working: a single site looks bad, so IE must be better. Has anyone had success in convincing management types to switch from IE, to another more secure, standards compliant browser? If so, how did you get the job done?"

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  1. Label it as IE by David_Bloom · · Score: 4, Informative
    I pretty much maintain all the computers in our high school's publications room.

    I just installed Firefox, then deleted the IE icons and then created new ones that had the IE icon and said "internet explorer" but whose link went to Firefox.

    No compliants, no spyware since.

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  2. Outlook Web Access = IE, != Anything Else by sam_van · · Score: 4, Informative
    Unfortunately, the "this website looks funny" issue may not be the only issue. Instead, "my webmail is crippled" may be a more visible issue, particularly for the PHBs in the group.

    At several of the organizations I've been involved with over the last couple of years, remote email (and calendar and discussion and ) has been via Outlook Web Access. Funny enough, usability tanks regarding attaching files, spell check, moving emails, preview panes, etc.

    IMHO, it is not the internet at large that's the issue with browser shifts; it's the intranet.

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  3. How I did it by Aliencow · · Score: 4, Informative

    I had all customer service agents switched to Firefox in a weekend, all they use is the UPS website to check tracking numbers, so the rest of the stuff they do is usually not business related so they don't complain. Have a few java apps, they work well, one required me to install Java 1.5.0 (Err I mean Java 5!) instead of 1.4.2 because it was running dog slow in Firefox with 1.4.2 ....

    Imported Favorites and settings...made IE hidden..
    2 or 3 users are special cases and they really need IE for some IE specific ActiveX crap but that's it...

    I spent 5minutes clearing spyware in the past 6 weeks.

  4. Re:Why isnt there an IE skin? by m0rph3us0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here it is.

    I've used it many times. Switch the icon for Firefox to IE. Install Luna. Done.