Jim Franceschelli gives us the following update from IT Services:
In the effort to support users and provide them with a modern and secure web-browsing platform, IT services is now installing and supporting up-to-date versions of Firefox.
Historically, browsers updates have been limited only to those which are fully supported by the ERP / Banner system. IT services will be lifting this restriction on Firefox, but keeping IE updates restricted to only those versions which are fully supported. This will means that all IT services computers will contain (and IT services will support) one browser that is guaranteed to be fully compatible with ERP / Banner (Internet Explorer 8.0) and one which has modern features and security (Firefox).
The Information Technology Service (ITS) department will be pushing the newest version of Firefox to University owned computers in offices on campus via KBOX beginning on November 2, 2012.
Once you install this update and open Firefox, you may be prompted with a series of screens on which you need to make choices.
- Select Your Add-ons
- Click the Add-ons you want to use
- Click Next
- Select your Add-ons (2nd screen)
- Displays which Add-ons are disabled but will be enabled as soon as they are compatible and which ones will be updated.
- Click Next
- Your default home page (most likely my.scranton.edu)
- Default Browser pop-up box
- Asks if you want to make Firefox your default browser
- We recommend you uncheck “Always perform this check when starting Firefox”.
- Click Yes – if you want Firefox to be your default browser
- Click No – if you generally use a different browser such as IE
If you have questions about this upgrade, please contact the Technology Support Center at (570) 941-4357 or techsupport@scranton.edu.
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