IBM: Firefox as the Default Browser

Firefox is being used as the default browser at IBM. IBM has asked its employees to do so by citing reasons that this one is a more compliant web browser.
 “Any employee who is not now using Firefox will be strongly encouraged to use it as their default browser,” IBM executive Bob Sutor. He also added, “While other browsers have come and gone, Firefox is now the gold standard for what an open, secure, and standards-compliant browser should be.”

Making Firefox the default browser in the organization would mean that the employees’ computers will be automatically directed to use this software to access the Internet unless the command is modified to do differently. All new computers that will be installed for the employees at IBM will have Firefox installed and IBM “will continue to strongly encourage our vendors who have browser-based software to fully support Firefox,” according to Sutor.

 “Today we already have thousands of employees using it on Linux, Mac, and Windows laptops and desktops, but we’re going to be adding thousands more users to the rolls,” Sutor said. Internet Explorer software by Microsoft is the most popular web browser followed by Firefox and Google chrome which replaced Apple Safari as the third most popular web browser in the U.S. “We’ll continue to see this or that browser be faster or introduce new features, but then another will come along and be better still, including Firefox,” Sutor said. “I think it was Firefox and its growth that reinvigorated the browser market as well as the web. That is, Firefox forced competitors to respond.”