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What is the benefit of doing this over simply installing Firefox on Windows? After you download the Firefox installer, you're done with Windows "messing" with y
by 0xffff2 3y ago
What is the benefit of doing this over simply installing Firefox on Windows? After you download the Firefox installer, you're done with Windows "messing" with you.
- tut-urut-utut 3y agoThe Windows Firefox will be removed by an enterprise security suite forced upon you from your IT security. Or bogged down by antivirus. Luckily for us, 99,99% of those corporate security and IT drones have no idea what you can do with wsl.
- 0xffff2 3y agoWow, and I thought my agency IT was hostile...
- wholinator2 3y agoWhat security person in their right mind would remove firefox as a security threat? In my opinion you can make firefox drastically more secure with adblock and tracking blocker addons and better default settings. You'd have to be totally unconcerned with actual security to force everyone into edge. Or maybe there are some draconian incentives at big-corp's that I haven't seen yet.
- vladvasiliu 3y agoThey wouldn't remove it "as a security threat" as such. They'd remove it because it's not part of the vetted applications list.
- raxxorraxor 3y agoThere is a portable version of Firefox that so far seems to run everywhere. The benefits you get with a portable browser are quite amazing. Of course, that limits system integration, but you can still register it as a default browser.
- buro9 3y agoI leave few things on Windows as Microsoft have opinions, and then OSQuery gives IT admins opinions. I prefer as few outside opinions on what I run as possible, so I only leave Chrome and VSCode in Windows and everything else is in Linux. I had run Linux for years, but whilst I still have Linux on desktop machines I leave Windows on my laptop as it truly gives me 8-9h battery life and Linux only gives me a matter of a few hours tops.