Firefox upgrade: System Administrator security considerations

Mozilla's Firefox is recognized as not only is an excellent browser, but its safety factor is also very high.

Many have used InternetExplorer or ActiveX technology in institutions because of their security and ease of operation and prepare for change to Firefox. High safety factor does not mean that Firefox can shield all viruses or no security vulnerabilities. However, in the most recent version, Mozilla 1.0 issued a series of upgrade package to make up for the Firefox security vulnerability in the latest version 1.0.6, the system has been up for a series of code vulnerabilities. However, the problem is that an organization's network administrator whether it is necessary to constantly track Firefox version updates and keep pace with it. In General, you can have two situations, to distinguish between the approach: one is the personal that is the system user end, desktop users, to be responsible for your own system's update, we called a poweruser. Another case is the software installed by system administrators control the end user only permission to run the program, you cannot remove the installation, we called JoeUser. 1.Powerusers Firefox's default settings, once a day to prompt for a new core program or plug-in, when Firefox found can be used to do the upgrade plugin, a green arrow will appear next to the throbber, this in the browser icon in the upper right corner of the download process will blink. If the user clicks on the green arrow, Firefox will start to download the latest version, before beginning the installation, Firefox will prompt the user to close the browser. In short, powerusers if necessary their own program of upgrading and installation. For an experienced user, these operations do not bother. But on the other hand, if your environment requires that the user won't have to install a program on the system, then this convenient and free will. 2. "JoeUsers" Firefox is as a cross-platform applications to write, so it on Windows, does not automatically through the central authentication system upgrade, or even automatically in the enterprise for new product configurations. This has always been considered to be the Firefox of the biggest flaws. At the same time, it is also the problem of Firefox users cannot change system settings, because many Firefox settings are not retained in the registry, but only as text exists. MozillaFirefox near new FrontMotion, is considered the most comprehensive solution to the problem of software, and therefore also has been a large number of users install MozillaFirefoxMSI, MSIs (MicrosoftInstallerpackages) was installed at the same time, it will issue a series of directives, so that the MSIs to each whole unit installed in the computer. MSIs has many advantages, such as its send mode for many administrators with a convenient, at the same time, it can first reconnaissance out during the upgrade process if there is a running Firefox process and prompts the user to close. More convenient is that FrontMotion also created a Firefox community to help administrators through Active Directory settings for Firefox to download, if you are just starting to set in the Organization and use Firefox, and you want to rely on existing systems rather than a specific solution, you can get help in the Firefox community. In addition, the FFDeploy script package BobTempleton is also a good choice, it is easier to configure, because use is the VBS script, programmers can easily be modified to configure a Firefox image. This is a relatively simple way, since it avoids a manageable environment deployment complexity of Firefox.