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Re:Chrome browser for businesses by dispose13432 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @12:12PM (#13278467)
>Companies have far too much internal plumbing to permit browsers to auto-update themselves. Being feature-compatible with the latest SV-poster-child website is insignificant compared to maintaining stability for the tax-management team's internal web app.

So why don't they have two browsers - one for internal use only (IE6), which is firewalled to only internal network shares and another browser (Chrome, whatever) which can only go to the real internet?

At least that way you'll be browsing the wild internet safely.

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Re:Chrome browser for businesses by beefield on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:49PM (#13279143)
> So why don't they have two browsers

I definitely do not claim they were right, but one of my previous employer's (not a software company) IT department insisted that additional applications in employee's computers were an extra workload for them to maintain. (Occasionally also security was used as an excuse). So the text editor that was allowed was notepad and the browser was IE.

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