Err, I'm using SuSE right now, with Mozilla 1.6, no sweat.

You don't even need to install Linux in such a case (they make Win32 versions of most alternate browsers), so why that came up I haven't the slightest. Now that you mention it though... at least w/ Linux, I could, if sufficiently anal and motivated, 'chroot jail' the entire Mozilla suite and all its' libs to make sure that nothing it does disturbs the rest of the box. :)

As for user boxes, installing Mozilla on them is just as easy as installing any other non- *.msi packaged app across a network... you can image it, you can sneaker it (whichis what you're hinting at, I believe), you can push it through a host of management proggies (Altiris or whoever's stuff)... that's almost a non-issue as pertains to just Mozilla.

It's a question of short-term inconvenience vs. the long-term scut-work of cleaning out the latest and greatest virii, malware, etc etc.

Sure, Mozilla, Opera, etc will have vulns exploited, but I can guarantee that it'll never be as easily attained and as instantly widespread as the IE debacles we're seeing right now (and Mozilla isn't embedded so deep into the OS that isolation and sandboxing it would be impossible.)



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