Network Weasels

Last week I received this email:

Periodic audits by IT indicate that you have Mozilla Firefox software installed on your computer. Unfortunately this is not Emerson approved software and must be removed. John Smith* (our in house colateral duty IT guy) will schedule a time for removal of this software.

*his actual name

The best I can figure out the reason they wanted Firefox off is they couldn’t figure a way to prevent folks from viewing embedded video on web sites with it like they can with IE. So now I was stuck looking at annoying ads when going to websites andhaving to dimiss a several warning dialog boxes that a website was trying to connect to the intranet that was never a problem with Firefox.

I thought maybe just leaving a thumbdrive with Firefox Portable installed on it was pushing the limits, so I tried Chrome Portable. Chrome may be the fastest browser, but it was pig slow off a thumbdrive, so I gave up after 3 days. Now I just live with Internet Explorer…