[THIN] Re: Web Browsers
- From: "Trevor Fuson" <fuson@xxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 10:12:30 -0700
There is a way to do it with the autoconfig and userprefs java script
files. I haven't tried messing with them, but there is some
documentation in the Firefox help on these. Basically you can configure
any setting in the about:config in Firefox and even lock these settings.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Jason Miller
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 7:59 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: Web Browsers
How did you get around making some menu options unavailable for some
users, but available for admins? Example: Proxy settings page...
obviously you don't want users to mess with it once it's configured, but
you'd want admins to change it if need be. With IE you can do that via
Group Policy, but obvioiusly not w/ Firefox.
I'll be honest...if I can figure out how to get that to work, I'll most
likely roll out Firefox on our Citrix servers.
-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Fuson [mailto:fuson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:15 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Web Browsers
I have to agree, Firebird is really the best browser for
Terminal Services.
Here is why:
1. It is a very tight browser, it has excellent
performance.
2. It doesn't have the broad spectrum of vulnerabilities
that IE has.
3. The 250MS draw delay saves bandwidth and increases end
user responsiveness. By contrast IE renders the page dynamically, or
you can change it to render the page in the background. Unfortunately
IE draw in background results in the end users waiting for a long time
for pages to display.
4. Tabbed browsing and popup blocking built-in.
5. Customizable UI. You can remove any visual element, such
as a menu item, by editing the browser.xul file. This file is contained
in the zip file named browser.jar.
6. The control panel is extremely simple and easy to use
for end users, there are not unnecessary item in the control panel to
confuse them. Administrators can customize the browsers 500+
configuration options by typing about:config in the address bar.
Firefox is nicer than Mozilla as well because the salting for
the profile directory is easier to handle.
Mozilla uses a binary file in C:\Documents and
Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla called registry.dat to
specify the location of the user profile. This binary file stores the
full path to the profile information, meaning the username changes an
you need some way to modify the path in the binary file.
Firefox uses a plain text .ini file, C:\Documents and
Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\profile.ini. The
path in the ini file is relative. This means that the changes you make
in the profile in the default user account works properly for all users
in the terminal server. Not to mention it is much easier editing the
profile file.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig
http://thin.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:29 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Web Browsers
Correct as in MOZILLA Firefox. Works fine on Citrix.
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Schill, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 9:08 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Web Browsers
If you just need a browser and nothing else I would
recommend Firefox.
Mark E. Schill, CCA
BellSouth Technology Group
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Kenzig
http://thin.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:37 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: Web Browsers
What is wrong with Mozilla?
-----Original Message-----
From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Greg Reese
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 8:30 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Web Browsers
I have been asked to explore web browser
alternatives for our Windows 2003 terminal servers.
Personally, I like Opera a lot and use it on my
laptop but it may be a little much for my users.
Has anyone loaded up other browsers on Windows
2003 and what kind of problems have you run into in doing so.
Thanks!
Greg
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