There is a Enterprise Edition of Firefox that has a much slower release cycle.

http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/

I didn't know that. I will look at the page, do you use this version? If so how do you like it and how does it compare to the version everyone uses?

Huh, never knew Firefox had such a version. Thanks for that Chris. It doesn't look like Mozilla advertises that much for whatever reason. I will look into that as well.
We only update Firefox for deployment periodically, usually every major revision, not every little iteration. Its just too much to keep track of.

We've been using the Enterprise release of Firefox 10 and will be moving to 17 shortly. It's worked pretty well for us... though the plugin disabling pop ups are still a nuisance.

So do your users prefer Firefox over Safari? If so why? Isnt Safari just as good if not better, also it is the default supported browser for Apple.

Unfortunately for us, Firefox is the only supported browser for the student information system that our staff use, so we have to have it. We have Safari, Firefox and Chrome on our machines. Firefox gets pretty heavily used, and Chrome is getting more and more use by people because we use Google Docs (Drive). I'm in a K-12 environment though, so maybe a different world from what you're in :)

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You would think that Mozilla would be a little more vocal about it. Right now the 6 week-ish release cycle of FF is a pain. At least Apple and Google slowed down a little bit. Oddly, we keep up with the standard releases, but are switching to the Firefox ESR for our next school year... or if 17 works well. Currently we support Safari, Chrome and Firefox for our users and it is quite a lot of 'fun' keeping up with them!

We are a school district and offer 2 browsers (FF and Safari) because inevitably there's some website 'required' that works on one and not the other.

I'd love to switch Chrome for FF, but haven't found a way with MCX or otherwise to fully disable the cloud print option in Chrome.

@CasperSally I haven't done this myself, but it looks like it's possible to disable cloud printing in Chrome with the CloudPrintSubmitEnabled key. http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#CloudPrintSubmitEnabled

Thanks, I tried that without success

https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=2731

We use Firefox ESR with Firefox cck because an external solution only works on Firefox.

We also use Safari for our Juniper Sslvpn because it only works with that browser.

We use Gooogle Chrome for developers and its great because the auto update works and have had to repackage in over a year ;)

If I had it my way I would get all relevant vendors in a room, bash their heads together and make all solutions work with Google Chrome, then block all the others.

Firefox and Chrome are superior to Safari if your a cross platform organisation, both are very consistent across different platforms so great for things like Student websites accessed externally where you don't know what hardware is going to be used.

I have just worked out how to use the Chrome Master Preferences, really liking the way that works although it can be a bit of a pain to get the file exactly right.