Do any of you have thoughts on a business case for continued use of Firefox for an individual?
Why? My employer is moving to uninstall all instances of Firefox on company computers for ‘security reasons’ in favor of Edge and Chrome. I would be allowed to keep it if I could make a business case for it. There is no legit reason why I can’t get my work done with another browser, but I am going to push hoping just being a squeaky wheel is good enough. My guess is folks on here will have clearer thinking on this than me. Does anyone out there think my IT dept is making a good decision?
The Chrome extension store is riddled with malware and general scam extensions. Part of the reason is Chrome’s massive market share making it the most enticing target for browser extension malware authors. That said, Google absolutely has the man power and technical ability to combat it even despite the amount of activity the Chrome Web Store gets, but they barely bother to moderate their store at all.
https://betanews.com/2014/01/23/chrome-has-a-malware-problem-and-google-needs-to-fix-it/ - this article is from 2014 and AFAIK it has not gotten much better. The article also mentions how Firefox is somewhat better in terms of moderating extensions. Full disclosure, I don’t know if Firefox has slackened their moderation policies in recent years, but I have not seen any reports directly stating that they have. Here’s are Firefox’s stated moderation policies, at least.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/seeking-higher-ground-after-chrome-extension-adwaremalware-problems/ - also from 2014, also mentions Firefox
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/fake-chrome-extensions-malware - from 2019
That’s as good of a reason as any not to use Chrome as far as I’m concerned. My folks have gotten around the problem by limiting the available extensions to just one - Acrobat.