I can see that. A nice challenge, but not a hair-on-fire, fix-this-immediately emergency. Not like the head of accounting cornering you and telling you they want the firewall wide open on Monday because they’re getting something new that day and don’t want any issues.

I’m going to keep the PC clean and wait a while to see if Firefox gets approved.

Well, there’s always portable Firefox, if you’re into civil disobedience. Very easy to remove if/when necessary.

And your corporate IT department REALLY needs to get on the ball when it comes to web browsers. From a security standpoint, there really is no comparison between IE and Firefox. Especially Firefox with Adblock and the malware domains subscription. Drive-by malware installation is much harder in Firefox than IE, for example.

And Firefox “support” is real easy. If an intranet web site doesn’t work, the solution is load the site in IE. If a page on the WWW doesn’t display right (fat chance), load it in IE.

I spent my lunch hour removing offending software (not illegal, just unapproved) and finding approved replacements for some. The hardest hit was losing Firefox, with the ad-blocking plugin.

I understand their need to have everybody using a narrow set of software. I’m smarter than the average bear, though, and was maintaining my PC nicely. And now I’m doing it with corporate-approved software, saluting the corporate flag, and wishing that they’d approve Firefox.

Chrome is probably waaaay off the map.

Please do!