Well below was my reaction last night, I have calmed down a bit, but my opinion has not changed, the discussion on more effort on supporting IE
than Mozilla has come back to haunt us:
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Have you lot gone stark raving fucking crazy !!!!!!!!
Our entire Support department is going to be driven totally nuts tomorrow, not to mention the loss in revenue on our site which nobody will be able to use as Mozilla decided to automatically disable Java. So, I mean its only a couple of years back that we told everyone to use Mozilla as IE had problems, tomorrow we will be telling them all to use IE, which will be music in the ears to all the IT people we have spent hours and hours and days convincing that Mozilla it the place to be. These people get sent on Microsoft courses, they love Microsoft, the only way we could convince their users to use Mozilla was that it was more stable, faster and with a smaller foot print. Meanwhile one needs an extra Gigabyte to install it and you can use it for 2 hours per day as the other 22 its busy updating itself (or in this case disabling Java).
Honestly I hate Microsoft as much as any of you lot, but I tell you Mozilla just shot itself in the foot by doing this.
I will now be spending the rest of the evening installing Chrom and Safari so that I can at least give the Customers some potential alternatives in the morning, however as the plugin also requires Admin permissions, this is going to cause pandemonium as none of the normal users will be able to update their Java without having to chase their Microsoft friendly IT guys with "we have a problem with Mozilla". You know what those IT guys are going to say ???
Honestly I cannot believe this, I am in a nightmare, please tell me its all a bad dream
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Well below was my reaction last night, I have calmed down a bit, but my opinion has not changed, the discussion on more effort on supporting IE than Mozilla has come back to haunt us: ------ Have you lot gone stark raving fucking crazy !!!!!!!! Our entire Support department is going to be driven totally nuts tomorrow, not to mention the loss in revenue on our site which nobody will be able to use as Mozilla decided to automatically disable Java. So, I mean its only a couple of years back that we told everyone to use Mozilla as IE had problems, tomorrow we will be telling them all to use IE, which will be music in the ears to all the IT people we have spent hours and hours and days convincing that Mozilla it the place to be. These people get sent on Microsoft courses, they love Microsoft, the only way we could convince their users to use Mozilla was that it was more stable, faster and with a smaller foot print. Meanwhile one needs an extra Gigabyte to install it and you can use it for 2 hours per day as the other 22 its busy updating itself (or in this case disabling Java). Honestly I hate Microsoft as much as any of you lot, but I tell you Mozilla just shot itself in the foot by doing this. I will now be spending the rest of the evening installing Chrom and Safari so that I can at least give the Customers some potential alternatives in the morning, however as the plugin also requires Admin permissions, this is going to cause pandemonium as none of the normal users will be able to update their Java without having to chase their Microsoft friendly IT guys with "we have a problem with Mozilla". You know what those IT guys are going to say ??? Honestly I cannot believe this, I am in a nightmare, please tell me its all a bad dream