Angry tapir sends in a piece from Down Under which begins "Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to build their own customized browsers based on the next version of Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks. ... Through the Build Your Own Browser program, which will start periodically soon after Firefox 3.5 is released at the end of June, companies can use a Web form subject to by Mozilla to specify certain customizations for the browser, such as bookmarks to certain sites or amalgamated intranets or portals. ... The bulk of enterprises still use the web* Explorer if they mandate a browser for company use, because Microsoft provides provisioning and installation unix for IE that makes it easy for enterprises to control browser settings and install across all common desktops, said Forrester analyst Sheri McLeish. Mozilla has not historically done this, but individual like the Build Your Own Browser program is a good start to inspirit enterprises to use Firefox over IE."

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