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My school uses Firefox, because of my computer science teacher. She hates IE and Outlook.
All shortcuts leading to IE were deleted (of course the pupils ARE ABLE to use IE, but nobody does that because when they don't see the shortcut on the desktop, they don't search it). 

Hi,

the Phoenix Fox Project has recently started the Phoenix Fox Schools initiative, I am looking for a small team of people to come and help run this sub project and after seeing these posts I have decided to ask here first. I am after around 4 people who are able to keep an eye on the project and able to post useful information about how Mozilla Firefox can be used in schools. This project is still in need of a logo and a Chief Administrator. No previous knowledge required but it is preferable. Please contact me at phoenix@phoenixfox.info by the end of the month.

Sincerely,

Phoenix, Creator of the Phoenix Fox Project

My high school actually has it. In middle school, they didn't have it, but I managed to download it to my personal file, so I could only get on that computer on that account. But any extensions I downloaded to it were gone every time the computer was logged off. However, in my new school, they actually have sense and have Firefox too. Though I don't usually use it. I have Firefox for my U3 flash drive, so any extensions, themes, or cookies I have aren't deleted when the computer turns off.

ff for all net users. kids, adult, man, woman.....

if ff will into schools, I think it will be fine

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Yea I talked to my IT teacher he basically said

1) firefox makes it easier for students to hack and get past school firewalls etc

2) Public schools get in Australia get sponsered by microsoft to use their products and only their products. (e.g. schools get a discount when they buy computers and software from microsoft and in return they insure that only their products get used at school)

3)  i can't remember the other reasons.

I hate it that my school doesn't use firefox! every time i browse the web at school i find myself pressing Ctrl + T!

Hi, 

I was talking to an IT teacher at my school who loves firefox but he told me that it dosent get used in the school very often because it's unfriendly for network administrators, because they can't set the proxy settings over the network. If theres a way to do this I might just be able to get my school onto firefox! Anyone know of ways?

Thanks!

 

 My school doesnt even use it, do not even touch it. I talk to them but they just nod and just tend to not listen. Seem to think that they always know best for me, well mostly... but they disregard any suggestions to change their ways.... which also annoys me.

- Dont worry Joshinator will save you!, except if you are on fire.....

My school is currently upgrading there computers to Windows XP, (finally), and they currently have Firefox 1.5. I'm telling them to get Firefox 2.0, but there security thingy  magigy keeps blocking updates. Pfft, some kinda security system. Well, there working on it, and I'm telling my friends to get it on there computers.

I studied in BTU Cottbus ..And in all the pc pools there were firefox..It was fine.

Diyetler Radyo Dinle Tvler Sohbet Rüya Tabirleri Muhabbet

help please...

I'm attempting to make a
1776 America-style  web page, but I can't find a free web host that allows 5.6 mb word document downloads.

 any suggestions?

Well see our school has Firefox 1.5, but I want 2.0.  I don't have an admin account but if I just install 2.0 over 1.5 it goes fine, although stupid Fortres blocks Firefox from updating over the net.  I have recently found a small workaround for Fortres but I still have to individually install it on every computer if I wanna be able to use Firefox 2.0, which takes forever considering our school computers are some of the slowest I've seen.

Recently my school, Bronx Science, had wireless internet (WiFi) installed, and is now in the process of upgrading their computers to Windows XP. Those computers that are now using Windows XP have Firefox installed and ready to use. Hopefully, all (or most of) the computers in the school will soon have Firefox.

nice idea and i am working on it but could you tell me wheather there is plug in that allows to controll evry firefoxs from one computer

my high school has firefox installed on its network but its not accesible to every connected computer in the building and its one of the old versions and so i just use Firefox Portable on a $30.00 256mb flash drive from best buy, that way i can keep my extensions and what not...

Last year when I was in high school I finally all of the computers to have Firefox 1.5 with the help of a few other students. Since then most of the students and teachers have been using Firefox 2 as the default browser. Anyway if you want to get Firefox into the school and don't know how to get past all of the locks,filters and software(that's what we had to do) PM me and I will try to help you the best I can.

I think I know why schools that do not accept firefox, maybe it is because IE is the easiest medium (for them) to teach internet basics & it is the browser they have expertise on. If Firefox can provide a free teachers manual that provide clear instructions, it can boost knowledge about new firefox users/teachers. Firefox should create a theme well suited to the level (like kiddie designs and bright colors for younger people and so on ...). Firefox should provide a educational version wherein the teacher is in control (some of you may not like this but it might boost popularity in schools)
& major settings are locked/remotely done. Firefox needs to be able to work with programs and hardware that control where the students surf so that it can provide ease in installations. Advertising campaigns to education-related sites can help greatly on promoting firefox (should tell why firefox is the best and why remove the rest). In my opinion, this should help boost campaigns(since schools are foundations of the future, maybe it will become a preference for future generations to use firefox). I hope firefox keeps on growing and beat that IE(WHICH I HATE)! In my opinion only. =D

I doubt my school would let Firefox into the system. I installed it without permission, within 4 days it was banned, even though all the restricted websites were still in place. So even if I go and talk to them I doubt they would allow it to be on the Network. I doubt they'll allow much, my brother who went to the same school was using www.altavista.com they banned it as they 'didn't like the looks of it'... it's a harmless search engine! I just hope they learn their lesson with ie7, I'm hoping it will destroy the network as it has reportedly done with so many other computers.

Sorry about that, I need help getting it into my high school.

Who do I talk to?

What should I say?

Thanks, sorry for the blank post. 

well, my high school has completely banned firefox.

if you are seen using it, then you immediatly have to shut down the computer, go straight to the principal, with an IT in the room, you have to:

    1.) explain how you got it to run

    2.) explain how you got it to connect

    3.)why

other than that, they will take away all computer privilages, because it is technically hacking the network.  firefox manages to bypass the filter that our school uses, but they just upgraded and downgraded in a sense. they are now using linux servers and all internet access is routed through there.  they bought software to filter out content, and it alerts someone when the keyword "firefox" is typed.

now firefox should be just fine.  everything is blocked and filtered now.  in order to get past the old filter, you just had to turn off the proxy settings in IE

Well at my school *High school* Its mostly ran with I-E but some of the cool Computer teachers use Fire Fox on the computers, but they had to stop because of the gay blockers would block sites when you used  Fire Fox. Witch was awsome... now its considered hacking if you download it and use it... ITS is freaking gay

Firefox should definitely be used in all schools from elementary to grad schools. It is by far the best web browser ever. I do however believe that for a school it should be properly configured by the school's administrator as far as security because obviously somethings will be blocked by firefox.

Firefox rains supreme,

Otter

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My school's horrible!

It should be the most important high school in the entire county but they are proud of their name and do not care about informatics!

Our pcs are horribly slow with windows Me installed and, obviously, Internet Explorer (dunno what version.. maybe 1.0...)

Hoping for Vista and FF2 is an utopia ._. 

Obviously,  a lot people still cannot accept Firefox... Maybe they think that IE is  the best... A lot of my school mates still uses IE instead of Firefox. Some of them don't even know that Firefox exists!!! The fact is IE is more popular than Firefox.

My school has restrictions on what you can install, so I used the portable Firefox until I found out the admin password...no I'm putting Firefox on every PC in the school!

My School *doesn't allow* Firefox, but You are allowed to install it on your school drive. The Only problem is that some web pages don't load (such as addons.mozilla.com). They gave up trying to block ff when us CompSci Nerds changed the name of firefox.exe to jihad.exe

Hi, I'm from Malaysia. My school have Firefox too!!! <b>Almost all the computer</b> in my school have Firefox installed. But, unfortunately, not many people use it except for some... I also notice that not many people in the world know about the existence of Firefox, yet. So, keep on the fight against IE!!! Firefox is the best!!!!

my school sucks, they jus upgraded to xp this summer so i can now run my pendrive but the school has a block one .exe's running. i cnt do anything now, since i found my way into all the system folders theve put more restrictions on, they even remove 'file' from IE taskbar!

anyone got any more ideas post!

i have been trying to do the same thing in my high school....i actually took it up to the prinicpal but he doesn't know all about firefox and he said he would actually ask the tech guys who work for the school....i don't think he ever asked though

I used to try and use Portable Firefox in my school, but when it failed to connect, along with Portable Opera, I gathered they must have been using Microsoft Exchange Server, which only performs the connection "Handshake" with IE. Sucks I know.

 
I'm in College now and luckily the servers there are slightly more decent, and I can use my Portable Firefox whenever. Not only that but it completely gets passed the JANET web filtering service, and I proved it because when I used IETAB to switch, it instantly blocked the site I was on, the unblocked it when I switched back to Firefox mode.

 Some of the staff at College actually promote the use of Firefox, and there is a "Get Firefox" button on the Homepage, but to most people who don't know what that is it's just another distraction from the dreaded web page. As per usual the lousy technicians worship MS, and when I was on my work experience I well and truly learned that they could not live without IE. They use all it's features:

IE, Outlook, DCOM, RPC, Active Desktop, Scripting, and more. There's even this stupid advertising bot in the library that take up, wait for it... 40MEG of Memory. Whenever I sit at that workstation it's CTRL+SHIFT+ESC for me, and end task... I cannot stand 40Megs of wasted memory.

You can download Portable Firefox from www.portableapps.com and just try it. If when you launch it there is no web activity after half a minute, I'm afraid your school is on that dreaded MS Exchange server. If not, you hit the jackpot!

Good Luck Firefoxing, and well done in finding a better browser.

Callum Fraser

I've been urging my school to switch to firefox for the past 1 year [yeps, I'm a 11 year old Singaporean] but they are like so addicted to IE. C'mon, IE SUCKS!

I've been studying in Eselx for about 2 years, and one of the great things I'd noticed was the fact that every computer in my school has the firefox installed, and the usage of firefox was something pretty common. But now with firefox 2, there are no longer any valid excuses. This browser is great. In my, not so, humble opinion the usage of Firefox in Portugal is on a great way, i personally enjoy the fact of we could choose between Portuguese from Portugal, and Portuguese with the Brazilian standard. I don't know what, internet explorer will do, but i predict some storming times for the Microsoft company  .

I started a new post because I want this to be above everything else about my creation. For more on this, read my posts below. Here is a good link to the Trojan Fox:

http://1776america.googlepages.com/  

aido2002

Well, I have created a solution for the problem I told you about in the previous post. I created a page that is called "1776 America" which just has a page claiming to be a 404 Error. When you click on "Report this error", Firefox downloads. Never once on the page does it say "Mozilla", "Firefox", and I even renamed the installer to be FFSetupVersion[insert version here].exe, so no filter is going to stop it. If your school blacklists it, let me know and I'll start an new page, maybe thisone can pretend to be about foxes! 

Feel free to use the Trojan Fox to get Firefox on your school's computers. The URL is: www.1776America.googlepages.com

P.S. Look for the "Easter eggs" on the page, such as the names at the bottom who I give credit for maintaining the page.

aido2002

Today, I tried to install Firefox on one of my school's computers, to test if I could get it to install. When the teacher turned around, I quickly typed in www.getfirefox.com and hit go on IE (which was reminding me of why I use FF in the first place. But all I got was a stupid access denied page, thanks to the damn filters in use at my school.. So, I tried www.mozilla.com. No luck. www.mozilla.org. Nothing. What is a third party site where I can download FF2? I don't think it can have "mozilla", "firefox" or anything like that in the URL, and possibly the entire page. On second thought, I'll just make a new page on my blog, which will just be a download. If you need the URL, email me a aido2002 [at] gmail .com, assuming I can get it set up. I want to get it on my school's computers before I leave it this year. (With the way my school's administration runs, they wouldn't notice if it was on every machine until they get new PCs, which will be a very, very long time. They used old Macs up until 2001... thats about 15 years.)

At my school, it's pretty divided, the opposite of what you would think.  The IT people hate Firefox for some odd reason.  The teachers love and install it on the computrs in their room.

Firefox is in some schools.  I’m the assistant technical support at a high school.  Teachers who use Firefox have fewer bug related problems than the teachers who use Internet Explorer.  Take the time to install Firefox and save the time spent removing what Internet Explorer lets through its many holes.

Does anyone ever try building a petition to get Firefox installed on school computers?  I just know petitions were always a useful way to get things done while I was in high school.

Hard work pays more than your job. 

www.wsdd.org
www.vital-design.com
 

well...

 At my school it is very easy to access Firefox, heck it is installed on half of the computers and there is an installer file on the network (a pain to find through)

 But no one seems to use it plus there are porky settings which need to be updated and not many people know how to do it.

 Through there are a few users that i know of there are not many.

And believe me it would take hours to convince a normal teacher (meaning not an IT teacher) to use it I love the idea through it is not very successful if not done well

I hope by next year it will be on all computers and fixed.

(Plus on the school laptops)

And check this cool firefox thing I made:

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Matthew Lesh

http://www.matthewlesh.com

Well I have tried, but it isn't working!!

First of all, I am too afraid to run Firefox Portable on school computers. it isn't allowed and there is another rule also.

Also, I have written several letters to the IT department of the school board requesting Firefox to be installed. I never got a reply from any of the 4 letters I sent.

Once I get into high school, I will get Firefox into those computers!

if sum1 knows how 2 stop thing that r written on the C: drive beign deleted im good

I can't even use Firefox Portable because they disabled all devices except the mouse...