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why can't they just let people install firefox, and use ie6 for internal apps, and firefox for external apps?

• ph0rque 18y ago
  In some cases, because the company in question feels you shouldn't need external access at work.
  • xlnt 18y ago
    If the company doesn't allow external internet access, it isn't relevant to anyone deciding what browsers their website should support.
    • ph0rque 18y ago
      Just because an employee shouldn't access the internet at such companies, doesn't mean he/she doesn't
• arebop 18y ago
  At my Fortune 500 company, permission to use Firefox is only granted to programmers who can convincingly argue that they need it for compatibility testing on Internet-facing applications. It's IE6 for everything else. The reason is that Firefox is a security risk(!).
• Xichekolas 18y ago
  Because the people that do desktop support don't want to support more browsers than the minimum possible. I'd bet a decent proportion of desktop support calls are about 'problems with the internet' (read: browser) and starting every one of those call with "are you using IE or Firefox?" would most likely get answered with: "I dunno! I want to use Google!"
  • froo 18y ago
    heh "we got a problem here, uh yeah, the website is down" http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/ http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/