Firefox Struggling to Compete as Corporate Browser

ericatcw brings us an article describing some of the obstacles Firefox is facing while competing with Internet Explorer for business use. Quoting Computerworld: "Now nearly three-and-a-half years old and nearing the release of Version 3, Firefox no longer can be accused of being callow. And while many IE-only apps remain, plenty of others have been overhauled to support Firefox as well. However, other obstacles to broader adoption have emerged. Mozilla thus far has neglected to develop tools to help IT departments deploy and manage Firefox, and it doesn't offer paid technical support services to risk-averse corporate users. Janco Associates Inc. in Park City, Utah, currently gives Firefox a 16% usage share among visitors to 17 business-to-business Web sites that it monitors. Janco puts IE's share at 67% while giving 9% to Netscape and 3% to Google Desktop."

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Re:Mozilla could do some things better

[canuck57]

I currently deploy Firefox to our corporate workstations, however there are definitely things that Mozilla could do to make Firefox more corporate friendly.

I take it then you are adverse to the lower maintenance costs of FF. It is actually more corporate "shareholder" friendly as about 15% of our FF users never seem to get infected and botted, reducing our workload. While this may be that your average FF user is more intelligent or that FF is more secure, it works for me.

I work in a large corporate environment and have no issues with FF.