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[โ€“] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 369 points 4 months ago (46 children)

laughs in Firefox

[โ€“] Dave@lemmy.nz 85 points 4 months ago (36 children)

Cries in only Chrome and Edge at work ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] Swarfega@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Download Firefox portable

[โ€“] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 4 months ago (2 children)

At large organizations you're generally not allowed to download much of anything without it passing through IT security and management first. If it's a no, it will probably stay a no.

[โ€“] Flagstaff@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I work for a non-profit and they are way more lenient about what we would like to install as long as the job gets done.

[โ€“] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Then you have bad opsec and security holes.

This matters more for some industries than others. But this attitude lets a malicious employee install basically whatever they want in service of "the job" and you won't even know you're being breached until after it's all over.

[โ€“] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Well, we still have to get approval. But it just seems like they don't mind as much. For example, I don't know how many companies out there would be fine with installations of AutoHotkey and LibreOffice.

[โ€“] slumberlust@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

In your experience, what large organization restricts this? I've worked at a few SaaS companies and a FAANG that always gave us full install rights and browser choice. Granted we are on the software side, but I haven't experienced this at all.

[โ€“] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Download Firefox portable

https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

Link for convenience.

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