Monthly Archives: January 2008

Firefox, Group Policy and Active Directory

One of the complaints that seems to come up a lot with regards to Firefox in the enterprise is the lack of support for management via Active Directory (using Group Policies). There have actually been a couple attempts to solve … Continue reading

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Simple Firefox Customizations: What Else Can I Do?

Before we get started on this next topic, I need to make one correction. In earlier posts, I said to use collapsed=”true” to hide XUL menuitems. A better option is to use hidden=”true” instead. Using collapsed doesn’t hide the margins, … Continue reading

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Simple Firefox Customizations: What Can I Change?

Now that we know where to add our XUL changes in a CCK XPI, let’s take a look at what we can change. You’ll remember from the previous post, we added this line: and we were able to disable the … Continue reading

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Firefox Enterprise Article in Computerworld

Computerworld has an article out today about Firefox in the enterprise that contains some quotes from me. There’s also some slashdot discussion, but most of that seems to be from people who don’t really understand enterprise requirements. Unfortunately I didn’t … Continue reading

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Simple Firefox Customizations: Using the CCK XPI

Now that we know the basics of XUL Overlays, we’re going to look at using an existing CCK XPI to make our changes. The reason we’re using the CCK XPI is because we want to take advantage of code that … Continue reading

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Firefox Enterprise Newsgroup

We’ve recently created a newsgroup/mailing list to talk about Firefox as it relates to enterprise, educational institutions, or other similar ventures. Here’s the first post I just put up: The goal of this newsgroup is to help enterprises, educational institutions … Continue reading

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