The problem with Firefox: Keeping it updated when your users don't run as Administrator. Sure, Firefox is easy when you're running as administrator on an XP bo

The problem with Firefox: Keeping it updated when your users don't run as Administrator. Sure, Firefox is easy when you're running as administrator on an XP box. But if that's what you're doing, haven't you already disqualified yourself from having any opinion about System Administration? Internet Explorer is a breeze to keep up-to-date for limited users because it's updated with the rest of Windows. I can use my WSUS server to do it. Microsoft leveraging its OS monopoly? Sure. Luckily, I don't care about politics. Firefox unhelpfully supplies no msi packages even to ease patch deployment. As an administrator, I have to ask myself which is more secure, patched IE or unpatched Firefox? Hint: it's generally the first since Microsoft is good about zero-days. Now, from the resources available to me, which are limited, should I expend some to install Firefox and keep it patched for all of my users? Well, that depends on whether or not I have anything more important to do. Often, I do, surprisingly enough. On the other hand, for our Linux clients, Firefox is packaged by the distribution, and deploying and patching it is a breeze.