SearchEnterpriseLinux: Where’s the Firefox Security Button?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 20, 2005

[ Thanks to Jan for this link. ]

“Anyone who has spent more than a minute or two administering a
Microsoft Windows PC knows about Internet Options. It’s a dialog
box that you can call up from the Tools/Internet Options menu of
Internet Explorer (IE). It also appears as an icon in the control
panel. Inside that dialog box is the security tab, where zones are
to be found. You pick a zone, and from then on the collection of
features that make up that zone dictate how secure surfing the Web
with IE will be. Nailing down the right zone cocktail is one of the
first tasks a network administrator thinks about when there’s a
heap of users all needing access to the Web.

“Now that Firefox is knocking on the door of enterprise
environments, it’s natural to ask: Where’s the equivalent Firefox
security settings…?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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