Comments on: Group Policy Extension for Firefox

By: Mike’s Musings » Too Many Life Events

Mike’s Musings » Too Many Life Events — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:44:39 +0000

[...] Group Policy Support – One of the other areas that was perceived as lacking in Enteprise Firefox was Group Policy support. I was working with Cesar Oliveira from Seneca College on putting something together, but honestly I just didn’t have the time to put into it. I hope he at least got a good grade from the work he did. This effort gave me even more expertise on tweaking and customizing the browser, but in the end its simply not something that I can invest more time into, so I’m not going to be working on it. This is a really interesting concept, though, and hopefully someone in the future will pick it up. [...]

By: Mark S

Mark S — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:40:13 +0000

It would be good to pull in some users of group policy and see what they use currently, like, don’t like and desire.

By: David Humphrey

David Humphrey — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:29:33 +0000

Cesar has a great post up about this, showing examples of the current policies in action:

http://cesar-oss.blogspot.com/2008/03/getting-this-done-one-policy-at-time.html

By: John Silvestri

John Silvestri — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:28:25 +0000

That’s *fantastic* news…I look forward to hearing more on this, and will have to give it a try.

I’d be particularly interested in something to disable form/password saving. With IE, I want to disable the phishing filter, as it sends information to MS, but Firefox’s default config. uses a local copy, so I’m not nearly as concerned. Other tweaks I handle with GP are largely centered around IE annoyances.

Beyond that, my biggest wish is for a good way to update Firefox over the network, ideally with MSIs that can be upgraded. (The current model of user-triggered-updates is completely untenable when users don’t have admin. rights.)

By: bharuch2

bharuch2 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:34:00 +0000

This actually RE: Operator and microformats. So, I’m trying to figure out what the difference between Operator and FF3′s microformat implimentation. What’s the difference? what does the FF3 implementation do, and how is it different from microformat…

btw..if i’m missing some helpful FAQ or document…i’m sorry and I’d appreciate a point the in right direction.

By: FileMaker Freeware

FileMaker Freeware — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:01:54 +0000

Very good job! I look forward to seeing this progress once Firefox 3 is released!