[Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox auto updating issue

[Éric Périard]

Dare I say, use Chrome?

From: Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Robert Stallknecht
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 12:37 PM
To: Daniel Veditz <dveditz at mozilla.com>
Cc: Enterprise Working Group Mailing List <enterprise at mozilla.org>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox auto updating issue

Personally, I really don’t like IE but looks like it is our only option at this point. Our Oracle DBA’s stated its going to take at least 6 months for them to finish their current projects and integrate the Java Web Start functionality. I currently have no control of my Firefox installs across the company. My motzilla.cfg, override.ini, local-settings.js, install.ini, host redirects appear to keep Firefox from updating for a short period of time but somehow the browser finds a way and updates massively across the company. From an enterprise perspective, I cannot have a program that updates on its own, on non-administrative user accounts, without being able to test those updates first.

Best Regards,
Robert Stallknecht
Senior Systems Administrator
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From: Daniel Veditz <dveditz at mozilla.com<mailto:dveditz at mozilla.com>>
Sent: Friday, October 12, 2018 10:31 AM
To: Robert Stallknecht <robert.stallknecht at gdctechnics.com<mailto:robert.stallknecht at gdctechnics.com>>
Cc: Enterprise Working Group Mailing List <enterprise at mozilla.org<mailto:enterprise at mozilla.org>>
Subject: Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Firefox auto updating issue

On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:21 AM Robert Stallknecht <robert.stallknecht at gdctechnics.com<mailto:robert.stallknecht at gdctechnics.com>> wrote:
  If not we will have to swap the whole company over to IE and will be uninstalling Firefox to avoid further issues.

Note that neither Firefox ESR 52.x nor IE will be receiving further security updates and have known vulnerabilities. There are exploits in the wild for IE. There haven't been any reported against ESR-52 but it's only a matter of time. Do not use these browsers on computers connected to the public internet unless you have time to deal with ransomware or other malware attacks.
-Dan Veditz
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