Firefox back in the frame for zero-footprint

Posted by Martin Peacock in PACS General, Zero Footprint      No comments

Jan
11

Back in June I wrote that Mozilla’s policy of rapid-fire releases made it unsuitable for Enterprises – including those of the Health variety.  Before updating a platform, IT departments must go through rigorous testing of all applications that sit on that platform, and it simply isn’t possible to do that at the rate Mozilla has been releasing new versions of Firefox.

To keep Firefox, then, has meant hosting applications on a platform that no longer has ongoing support or security fixes.

Which meant that any hospital looking to move towards the undeniable future of zero-footprint web image viewers, would end up relying on Internet Explorer.

I did say that one way out of the quandary was for Mozilla to volte-face. I offered an opinion that that was unlikely. Thankfully, I was wrong.

As covered in various places, Mozilla has changed its mind and will not only be providing a Long-Term-Support version, but has resurrected the Enterprise User Working Group for collaborative input to make Firefox even more Enterprise-friendly.

Game back on.