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In fact, Mozilla has made customisation
tools available in the past although these
were previously aimed at experts and not
specifically adapted for corporate use. Now
the organisation hopes that the new
programme will help win further market share
from its main rival, Internet Explorer.
Mike Beltzner, Director of Firefox at
Mozilla Corp commented: “The ‘Build Your Own
Browser’ program is a good fit for
enterprises that want to create a customised
browser that can be easily installed across
multiple corporate desktops. Once the custom
browser is developed, the application will
send it to the company and give it an
installation program that makes it possible
to install the browser across all desktops
in the company.”
Sheri McLeish, Forrester analyst, said: “The
bulk of enterprises still use Internet
Explorer if they mandate a browser for
company use, because Microsoft provides
provisioning and installation software for
IE that makes it easy for enterprises to
control browser settings and install across
all corporate desktops.”
She added: "If Mozilla can enable some
customization to developers and IT
professionals to not only brand but give
greater control to manage and administer the
Firefox browser, that will certainly have
companies take another look at it to make it
the default browser of choice." |
