Firefox is 100% open source, so even if Mozilla itself doesn't focus on making MSIs, other people can. There is at least one company doing just that,

http://bespokeio.com/

FrontMotion mentioned in the GP post is probably the most popular one I'm aware of. But it's absurd to have to rely on a third party for what's a basic matter of packaging.

MSI is the standard for packaging applications for deployment in enterprise environments for Windows. Mozilla's prolonged refusal to officially support it amounts to a tacit refusal to properly support enterprise.

This isn't a new issue, nor is it a minor one. The Bugzilla issue for this was opened eight years ago[1] and there still isn't a proper, official deployment solution (and this isn't even getting into the lack of centralized management support).

[1] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231062

It isn't a basic matter of packaging. You also need to do very exhaustive testing to make sure it works exactly as it should in all possible cases. Enterprise support is not easy to do.

Of course it isn't. But Google do it just fine with Chrome:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/chromebrowser.ht...

Why is it surprising that Google can do it? Google has massive resources.

Mozilla brought in over 100 million in 2009.

>Enterprise support is not easy to do.

Sure, but other projects manage to do it just fine, without users having to yell to the heavens about it being a dealbreaker for nearly a decade.

Honest question: Can you give some examples of other open source projects (not ones run by massive corporations like Google, which obviously can afford to do enterprise support) that have full enterprise support?

But who are Bespokio?

I mean, we know who they are. But from the corporate perspective, you're downloading an MSI from a relatively unknown party (when compared to Mozilla). Not encouraging.