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Will policy support help Google Chrome make enterprise gains?
One thing which might help is the addition of policy support to Chrome. With administrators able to control things like access to Wrench > Options, extension installs, and content settings, they might just be a little more willing to deploy Chrome on their corporate machines -- where manageability is a primary concern. There's still the tech support hurdle to overcome: many large businesses outsource their IT help desks and Chrome support skills could be in short supply. It's still a very young browser, after all.
Google also recently introduced an .MSI package for Chrome, and that too could help further adoption. The .MSI allows for machine-wide installs into the Program Files directory rather than into your Application Data folder and should make deployment a painless procedure (at least the install portion).
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Subscribe to commentsRichardAug 19th 2010 9:52AM
Whilst it is great that they are doing this, they might have a better chance if they also include functionality so that admins can whitelist certain intranet domains in which Chrome uses the IE6 rendering engine instead of it's own.
Otherwise I think it'll suffer one from of the other issues that Firefox and Opera has, in that applications such as Oracle Financials simply don't work in anything but Internet Explorer.
JamesAug 20th 2010 9:02PM
If your admins gave half a shit what browser you want, they'd already know about (and give you!) extensions like IE Tab for Firefox, which can do *precisely* what you asked for -- that is, use IE, embedded in a tab, to render specific pages based on a list you supply. But they don't do that.
If your boss gave half a shit about your user experience, they wouldn't *subject* you to terrible, terrible webapps that only work in ancient, near-unusable browsers. But they do.
Think about that next time you're on your way to work.