When asked about security, Higgins said it is a concern but it needs to have a proper cost benefit analysis done and is dependant on the organization's protection strategy.

"Do I want to spend time installing something else? At the end of the day the product with the biggest market share is the most exposed," he said. "Most of the people running Firefox are IT savvy and their systems will be well patched and managed."

This concept of adding third-party software to the standard Microsoft operating environment will keep Firefox off the wider enterprise desktop, Higgins says.

"You are going to be installing patches for your desktop any way but do I really want to be rolling out patches for Firefox as well?" He said. "Most people are running the Microsoft suite so do they want to introduce another discipline?"

Higgins said arguments pertaining to reducing risk by installing Firefox are "lax" and IT managers may be "swapping one problem for another".