After logging on to one of the Informatics cluster machines in the university today, I saw that my IE icon has magically turned into a Firefox one 
. The school has installed both Firefox 1.0 and Thunderbird 1.0 on all of the Windows machines. Not sure if it’s on Linux as well but we have Mozilla on those anyway.
Related Posts:
This work, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
January 31, 2005 at 16:38
That is indeed one pleasant surprise. Really need to convince my school. But well, I don’t know if our prehistoric beasts run open-source software.
January 31, 2005 at 17:02
Presumably still called Internet Explorer for those that would scream if they couldn’t find it?
January 31, 2005 at 17:10
I’ve attempted to get the College here (Norwich City College), but they said something along lines of “we can’t control it as much we can with IE.”
Something about Group Policies – thankfully I can use Portable Firefox on my thumb drive
January 31, 2005 at 17:29
So they’ve hidden IE totally now? I posted about them installed Firefox at the start of the year. –
January 31, 2005 at 18:09
My school recently removed Firefox from their network. They had it installed, but not many people were using it. When they found out people had begun using it to access Java applets and Flash files, they completely locked us out, quoting “Network security” as the issue. D’oh!
February 1, 2005 at 07:23
Firefox Adoption
Josh Aas writes that Macalester College has switched to Firefox in its computer labs. I can only imagine what it would mean for Firefox usage at Harvard if it became the official browser in our computer labs. As DrunkenBatman notes on his post about Mi…
February 1, 2005 at 23:17
Cool!
I wish and hope my uni (Uppsala, Sweden) will do the same, if they haven’t already. (Was a while since I checked out the computer rooms.)