Mozilla Announces Enterprise User Working Group

Lennie sends this quote from an announcement at the Mozilla blog: "Recently there has been a lot of discussion about enterprises and rapid releases. Online life is evolving faster than ever and it's imperative that Mozilla deliver improvements to the Web and to Firefox more quickly to reflect this. This has created challenges for IT departments that have to deliver lots of mission-critical applications through Firefox. Mozilla is fundamentally about people and we care about our users wherever they are. To this end, we are re-establishing a Mozilla Enterprise User Working Group as a place for enterprise developers, IT staff and Firefox developers to discuss the challenges, ideas and best practices for deploying Firefox in the enterprise."

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Re:Are you on the same planet?

[wolrahnaes]

The problem you describe is caused by exactly the thing they're trying to solve here. Corporate users are stupid and think that deployment strategies which worked 10 years ago still make sense. Anything that touches the internet needs to be able to be updated rapidly, so the corporate "this version is the version we use for the next five years" idea needs to go away.

If you have a web app you consider critical, testing it against a browser version is fucking retarded. Test it against standards, or failing that at least test it in multiple current-generation browsers. If it's good in either of those cases, you can feel comfortable that it won't be broken by a browser update, which then means you won't be risking your data security and pissing off web developers by dragging around shitty old browsers.

As far as I'm concerned, IE8 is the oldest browser that anyone should care about. If you can't at least get to that, you are doing it wrong.