Recent answers to I support a very large school district currently running Firefox 3.6. What will happen at end of life date? We're in the middle of online testing this week.https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/9257702012-04-23T01:21:15-07:00I'm in management, so I don't actually do anything, but I'll pass it along to my test guy ;)
Th2012-04-23T01:21:15-07:00bachelorbhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925770#answer-327550<p>I'm in management, so I don't actually do anything, but I'll pass it along to my test guy&nbsp;;)
</p><p>Thanks very much for the input.
</p>An addon such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-private-browsing-pl/ may hel2012-04-23T00:37:14-07:00user633449https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925770#answer-327542<p>An addon such as <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-private-browsing-pl/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-private-browsing-pl/</a> may help, or <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dickvl/Private_Browsing_disable" rel="nofollow">http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dickvl/Private_Browsing_disable</a> (keep in mind this is beyond what this forum can support you with if you need help making those changes).
</p>We had to do some serious gymnastics to remove at least most of the ability to use IPB. We removed i2012-04-23T00:34:19-07:00bachelorbhttps://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925770#answer-327540<p>We had to do some serious gymnastics to remove at least most of the ability to use IPB. We removed it from the gui, but unfortunately, if they know the hotkey, they can still bring it up. Security has some serious headaches with this, as by law they have to be able to track where students go, and going with private browsing removes their ability to do forensic work they're required to be able to do. Not a very well thought out feature from Mozilla in my opinion, but it is what it is. Successive versions have made it even more difficult to remove even the gui portion.
</p><p>We do plan to release ESR due to the aforementioned security issues, but testing has been slow.
</p><p>But thanks for the reply. I think we can turn off the updates if it isn't already done.
</p>If the updates are turned off, nothing will happen, Firefox will continue to operate normally at 3.62012-04-23T00:27:45-07:00user633449https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/925770#answer-327537<p>If the updates are turned off, nothing will happen, Firefox will continue to operate normally at 3.6. However, if there are any security holes, issues, etc. with 3.6, they will not be fixed and you will be running an insecure version of Firefox. so yes, for your orginization I'd reccomend ESR. There are customizations you can make to remove Private Browsing so that users can't have access to it. but, private browsing has been in Firefox since 3.5, so your students already have it&nbsp;;) But, no your students will be able to use Firefox, but it is unsafe.
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