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Or just install Firefox with IE tab. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 Or just keep IE 6

by GavinB 17y ago

Or just install Firefox with IE tab. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 Or just keep IE 6 and run Firefox in parallel for everything else.

derefr 17y ago
Those both assume you still have an IE6 to use, and that your company would rather switch to Firefox than upgrade to IE8.
- GavinB 17y ago
  The problem is that you can't run IE6 and IE8 in parallel (though it sounds like adbachman may have a way around this). So you keep IE6 for applications in your intranet that require it and use Firefox for general web access.
  - derefr 17y ago
    But the point is that that's possible now, but corporations aren't doing it. As long as IE6 exists on the computer as a general web-browsing solution, and is required for something, they'll be loath to install and maintain "another, redundant" web browser for anything else. To stop this practice, we have to take IE6-the-browser away completely, and in its place give IE6-the-hardwired-intranet-client.
    - pjonesdotca 17y ago
      In most of the companies I've worked for in the last decade, including a fair bit in systems administration I've see the following used as the solution. USER: I have a problem. TECH: Let's see...hey! Why do you have Firefox installed? USER: It works better than IE6. Why are you guys using old crap like that? I thought we were a modern company... TECH: We are modern, except for IE6. USER: So I have to uninstall it? TECH: I can't "officially" support it. USER: Aaaah. TECH: OK, your print queue is cleared.
      - GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
        Where I work the conversation would go something like this: TECH: Who gave you permission to use uncertified software? USER: Uh, noone TECH: I'll have to make a report about this. MANAGER: You're fired.
        pjonesdotca 17y ago
        Uh, who got fired in this one.
        GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
        That would be the user wearing the boot up his ass. Running unapproved software (e.g. portable FireFox on my locked down machine) would be grounds for immediate dismissal in this org. IE 6 forever (sigh)
        pjonesdotca 17y ago
        Yipes. Even as an SysAdmin I never had that kind of pull to get a user booted out for something like that. The most hardcore lockdown I ever did involved reghacking out USB ports on the terminal in the lunchroom.
  - aarongough 17y ago
    You can run IE6 and IE7/8 in parallel if you use the stand-alone version of IE6: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/win32/standalone http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/win32/standalone I find this very useful. I use it in all of my testing VMs.
ScottWhigham 17y ago
I can't tell if you are serious or not...

by GavinB 17y ago

derefr 17y ago

Those both assume you still have an IE6 to use, and that your company would rather switch to Firefox than upgrade to IE8.

GavinB 17y ago
The problem is that you can't run IE6 and IE8 in parallel (though it sounds like adbachman may have a way around this). So you keep IE6 for applications in your intranet that require it and use Firefox for general web access.
- derefr 17y ago
  But the point is that that's possible now, but corporations aren't doing it. As long as IE6 exists on the computer as a general web-browsing solution, and is required for something, they'll be loath to install and maintain "another, redundant" web browser for anything else. To stop this practice, we have to take IE6-the-browser away completely, and in its place give IE6-the-hardwired-intranet-client.
  - pjonesdotca 17y ago
    In most of the companies I've worked for in the last decade, including a fair bit in systems administration I've see the following used as the solution. USER: I have a problem. TECH: Let's see...hey! Why do you have Firefox installed? USER: It works better than IE6. Why are you guys using old crap like that? I thought we were a modern company... TECH: We are modern, except for IE6. USER: So I have to uninstall it? TECH: I can't "officially" support it. USER: Aaaah. TECH: OK, your print queue is cleared.
    - GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
      Where I work the conversation would go something like this: TECH: Who gave you permission to use uncertified software? USER: Uh, noone TECH: I'll have to make a report about this. MANAGER: You're fired.
      - pjonesdotca 17y ago
        Uh, who got fired in this one.
        GiraffeNecktie 17y ago
        That would be the user wearing the boot up his ass. Running unapproved software (e.g. portable FireFox on my locked down machine) would be grounds for immediate dismissal in this org. IE 6 forever (sigh)
        pjonesdotca 17y ago
        Yipes. Even as an SysAdmin I never had that kind of pull to get a user booted out for something like that. The most hardcore lockdown I ever did involved reghacking out USB ports on the terminal in the lunchroom.
- aarongough 17y ago
  You can run IE6 and IE7/8 in parallel if you use the stand-alone version of IE6: http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/win32/standalone http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/win32/standalone I find this very useful. I use it in all of my testing VMs.

ScottWhigham 17y ago

I can't tell if you are serious or not...