Firefox's enterprise support version has now been released
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"Mike, you do realize that we get about 2 million Firefox downloads per day from regular user types, right? Your “big numbers” here are really just a drop in the bucket, fractions of fractions of a percent of our user base.
Enterprise has never been (and I’ll argue, shouldn’t be) a focus of ours. Until we run out of people who don’t have sysadmins and enterprise deployment teams looking out for them, I can’t imagine why we’d focus at all on the kinds of environments you care so much about."
http://mike.kaply.com/2011/06/23/understanding-the-corporate...
Part of this new ESR process is that 3.6 will go EOL in April.
Asa's opinion there was never the official position nor the position of a majority in Mozilla AFAIK.
The fact that they still haven't done anything about it, even with a supposed enterprise version kind of indicates that they're still not taking the enterprise seriously.
MSI is the standard for packaging applications for deployment in enterprise environments for Windows. Mozilla's prolonged refusal to officially support it amounts to a tacit refusal to properly support enterprise.
This isn't a new issue, nor is it a minor one. The Bugzilla issue for this was opened eight years ago[1] and there still isn't a proper, official deployment solution (and this isn't even getting into the lack of centralized management support).
Sure, but other projects manage to do it just fine, without users having to yell to the heavens about it being a dealbreaker for nearly a decade.
http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.ht...
I mean, we know who they are. But from the corporate perspective, you're downloading an MSI from a relatively unknown party (when compared to Mozilla). Not encouraging.