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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by camwest on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @07:27PM (#2609855)
We deal with a large enterprise that uses old versions of IE and whenever our support team encounters one we just upgrade them to Chrome. Sadly we can't recommend any other browser since they all require admin access for some reason.
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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by ysangkok on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @08:14PM (#2609990)
You can get Firefox and Opera in portable versions that don't require admin rights.
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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by nodata on Thursday June 02, 2011 @03:22AM (#2611062)
Don't make things so complicated!

If you want to install Firefox, get the normal Firefox download, and install it on your desktop (i.e. choose a path which you have write access to)

You only need Admin rights to install system wide or overwrite system binaries.

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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by peregrinari on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @09:27PM (#2610207)
This works if USB devices haven't been locked down by some kind of IT policy.
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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by zvm on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:18PM (#2610517)
While portable apps are promoted for and usually installed on USB drives, they can also be installed on local disks as well, and they don't require admin privileges to do so (from my experience).
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Re:Google Apps dropping support for older browsers by peregrinari on Thursday June 02, 2011 @12:32AM (#2610706)
I was not aware of that. Thanks! I guess the portable aspect is not quite perfect for their description though?
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