I’m not in the US, it’s a local council/regional thing. And most areas here have chromebooks for every student so that’s just become the default, I think. But yes, our IT tends to be a good 10-15 years behind the curve anyway. No money for resources either.
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dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoYour school’s IT department should be fired for even downloading Chrome, let alone making it the default browser across the network.
K3zi4@lemmy.world 8 months ago
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Sadly, that is the case for many companies. They do this because they either leverage the Google Chrome enterprise .admx on Windows or because they rely on Google Workspace which has tight integration with the Chrome browser.
That is unfortunately the same in my case, however, I as a SysAdmin had fought tooth and nail to allow users to choose whichever browser they want and because we have a lot of devs/power users our Firefox usage is 25% on Mac and 17% on Windows. The rest I guess are just marketing :)
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Firefox actually has GPO templates(since 2018, starting with Firefox 60 and 61): …mozilla.org/…/customizing-firefox-using-group-po…
I believe Firefox didn’t have an MSI installer before, which might have helped Chrome since MSI files are easier to deploy.
Also Chrome is just what most users are familiar with, so just deploying Chrome is not unusual.
lud@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s ridiculous.
The browser that’s downloaded by default should be the one that most people want to use and/or have a feature that’s necessary for their job.
Personally, I would just deploy both Chrome and Firefox since there is no real reason not to, except it’s a little bit more work.