Is it just me, or has Firefox become an outcast?
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@IRJ said:
What we really need to do is define browser. Because Chrome is more than a browser. Its a mini OS
I wouldn't say Chrome is a mini OS. How do you figure that?
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You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
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@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
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@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
Never used a Chromebook or Chromium, no.
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I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
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@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
OK IE 8 is more than a little dated.. but I completely understand the lack of local admin rights, why do you need it for your day to day job?
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@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
Sure, but everything I see these days are Chrome or IE. Vendors are now starting to develop specifically for Chrome (in my case IE and Chrome - well and that apple browser too).
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@Dashrender said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
OK IE 8 is more than a little dated.. but I completely understand the lack of local admin rights, why do you need it for your day to day job?
Yeah it is. As far as rights go, we don't really. We have a box we're given that we're allowed to run any OS we want on and have full rights on. That's our play/dev/admin box. The other has all the company-issued tools and monitors on it.
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@IRJ said:
@ajstringham said:
@IRJ said:
You could literally live off just Chrome in Windows for the majority of your tasks
It's a browser. Yeah, Google has Google Docs and the like, but those are all web applications that can be used in any browser. Most of what we do nowadays is in a browser, so that's not really an accurate statement.
Have you used Chrome OS before?
I have used a ChromeBook before, and yeah as far as the user interface is concerned - it is just the Chrome browser - but that doesn't mean that Chrome the browser that's install on my Windows machine is anything like the Chrome OS that runs on ChromeBooks.
That said - do you know... is the code essentially the same with a bootloader strapped on?
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So I post from the dev/admin machine, as that isn't really tracked. I work from the other. It's kind of a weird system but it makes sense.
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@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
Great for a security vendor! Eeek.
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@ajstringham said:
We don't have admin rights either...Of course you don't. What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation would have admin rights for end users?
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I think that every browser has its detractors. Everyone seems to hate at least one browser.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
@scottalanmiller said:
I use both all day. Just not IE.
I think FF suffers from sharing an audience with chrome. IE has its own user base.
McAfee still has all their company-issued laptops on IE8! We don't have admin rights either...
Great for a security vendor! Eeek.
I'm learning that McAfee is so much more than that. They all do, in the end, boil down to one form of security or another. However, McAfee the AV is just a tiny piece of the whole pie.
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@Reid-Cooper said:
I think that every browser has its detractors. Everyone seems to hate at least one browser.
IE8 was great...back when it was released for XP and stabilized IE. I see no reason we shouldn't AT LEAST be on IE9.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@ajstringham said:
We don't have admin rights either...Of course you don't. What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation would have admin rights for end users?
Domain admins? None. That'd be stupid. I've always had at least local admin rights though.
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@ajstringham said:
Domain admins? None. That'd be stupid. I've always had at least local admin rights though.
Local admin. Considered the absolute first rule of computing - never give end users local admin rights.
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@scottalanmiller Isn't AJ in IT?
But yeah use a domain account an elevate it with the needed permissions if needed. otherwise there is no way to remove it or disable it if the know the local admin account login.
Even for IT staff I've followed the rule of giving them two accounts, one is standard limited account which is to be used for most things, email, web surfing etc. and then a second account with their initals ex: jfadmin for a domain admin login. keeps things from getting messed up.
I've actually never even elevated a normal end users account to let them be a local admin I've always modified folder permissions or registry permissions as needed. I have given GIS people local admin rights before but they are pretty much an extension of IT in some places and can't live without it do to the software developing they do.
