laserblazer Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 I recently changed to Chrome on my computer. I have a very big Google spreadsheet that was painfully slow on IE8 but is almost realtime with Chrome, so I am delighted. I'm seeing problems with some sites and I'm toying with changing the curriculum machines to Chrome. Is this the way to go?
elsiegee40 Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Are these XP machines? I find Chrome better than IE8 on XP. On Win7, IE9 seems much better behaved 1
CyberNerd Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 We have a google apps site, so chrome was a natural choice and it is installed site wide, but so is FF. 1
Edu-IT Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Is it easy enough to manage Chrome with the ADM files, such as disabling store etc? 1
CyberNerd Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Is it easy enough to manage Chrome with the ADM files, such as disabling store etc? yes. you can set the enterprise web store url in the adm policies on windows, mac and linux Use Chrome policy templates - Google Apps Help list of policies Policy List - The Chromium Projects
Geoff Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Yes, you need the files from here. Use Chrome policy templates - Google Apps Help 1
Sylv3r Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 We run Chrome and IE on our machines. It gives the students and staff a choice of which they prefer to use. 1
mdench Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 use chrome as default on all machines, IE tends to bomb out and die coz well its IE... people seem to prefer google chrome as well 1
mattianuk Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 We use chrome site wide on win 7, no complaints.
Jamo Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 We thought about it but get issues with offline files and chrome. Seems to create loads of .tmp files instead of file downloads and causes sync conflicts 1
Edu-IT Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 Thanks! Lots of policy options there. Will take a look.
Trapper Posted October 20, 2012 Posted October 20, 2012 I personally use Firefox, but keep managed workstations to IE. GPOs are built in, updates come via WSUS and it just works. It's not a great browser, but it works well in a managed environment.
Ashm Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 We're looking to deploy Chrome site wide, what are you all doing in terms of updates for Chrome? Do you let it update by default over the internet or do you disable updating and deploy a new version of Chrome via GPO etc every now and again?
mattianuk Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 I let it update itself, but last update messed up iwb support
SYNACK Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 If you are going to be using Google Apps then Chrome is the best as it is written for it despite being standards based. IE9 and 10 are much better than 8 but if you are stuck with XP then FF LTE or Chrome Corp are ok alternatives. If you are going GAPS then may as well get the whole Google stack so that it all works the way is it supposed to with all the optimisations for their own apps built in. 1
speckytecky Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 For security wouldn't the Comodo variant of Chrome be the better choice?
Arthur Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 Google Chrome Frame may also be worth installing (in addition to Chrome). This is a plug-in for Internet Explorer that enables suitably coded web pages (like all of Google's websites) to be displayed using Chrome's WebKit and V8 JavaScript engines instead of Internet Explorer's. This will ensure that users who accidentally view Google's website through Internet Explorer won't get a sub-par experience.
Arthur Posted October 21, 2012 Posted October 21, 2012 (edited) For security wouldn't the Comodo variant of Chrome be the better choice? Based on the description given of Comodo's Dragon Browser on Wikipedia, personally I wouldn't bother. Since their browser is based on Chromium (instead of Chrome), you lose out on a significant number of useful features. In addition, the following Google Chrome features are removed or disabled in Dragon: Automatic access to Google search on startup for users with Google as default search engine Google-hosted error pages when a server is not present Automatic address bar search suggestions Bug tracking system, which sends information about crashes or errors Built-in PDF viewer and Adobe Flash Player which is sandboxed. Google Native Client (NaCl) support H.264 codec Google Safe Browsing which blocks malicious and phishing sites. Google Online Documents which can open many file types without having to download them to your system. Google Translate which can automatically translate webpages. Google Chrome is always based on the stable release of the open-source Chromium (web browser) core whereas Comodo Dragon is sometimes based on the beta releases. Google Chrome is the first Chromium (web browser) to receive the latest updates and patches for vulnerabilities whereas other Chromium (web browser) browsers (like Comodo Dragon) have to wait for the open-source code releases and develop a new version of their product. Based on the time it takes for a new version to be released with the latest updates and patches, other Chromium (web browser) browsers may be open to vulnerability exploits. I would say that last point is reason enough not to bother. Edited October 21, 2012 by Arthur 1
Geoff Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 I would say that last point is reason enough not to bother. Well because Chrome is based on Chromium and Chromium is open source, the security issues are fixed in the public source tree long before there is a Chromium based or Chrome binary release available (because of the open source license). So if you are really paranoid about this you should be building Chromium from source yourself.
Arthur Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 the security issues are fixed in the public source tree long before there is a Chromium based or Chrome binary release available That makes sense, although Chrome is still better than Chromium (in terms of security) because of the sandboxed Flash plug-in.
Geoff Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 That makes sense, although Chrome is still better than Chromium (in terms of security) because of the sandboxed Flash plug-in. As opposed to no flash at all?
sonofsanta Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 Just testing it at the moment to push it out, but I won't set it as default, because I can't get bl%%dy favourites to follow people around, it insists on storing them locally. The only way around it, as far as I can see, is to let people use Google Sync, but I'm not going down the path of explaining how to do that.
laserblazer Posted October 22, 2012 Author Posted October 22, 2012 I opted for IE8 in the end as I needed a quick solution without too many unknowns. We are upgrading to Windows 7 shortly, so I'll rethink it then.
Geoff Posted October 22, 2012 Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) Just testing it at the moment to push it out, but I won't set it as default, because I can't get bl%%dy favourites to follow people around, it insists on storing them locally. The only way around it, as far as I can see, is to let people use Google Sync, but I'm not going down the path of explaining how to do that. From my login script (I don't actually use this now, as I patched chromium in source to 'do the right thing'). mklink /h "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\bookmarks" "s:\favourites\chrome\bookmarks" mklink /h "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\bookmarks.bak" "s:\favourites\chrome\bookmarks.bak" Edited October 22, 2012 by Geoff 2
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