Vesey said he wrote his own C++ code in the absence of the CCK and warned Mozilla that most IT departments wouldn't go to the trouble of creating custom tools to deploy Firefox. But the CCK won't be helpful to Boeing just yet. Although Vesey said the tool is usable in its present form, it's available only with Firefox 1.5. Boeing's current corporate standard for Firefox is Version 1.07, he noted.

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Firefox Backers Hope for Boost From IE Upgrade

Some of the companies that have standardized on Internet Explorer as their Web browser may find themselves in a dilemma when Microsoft releases Version 7.0, which is due later this year.

IE7 will be available only for the new Windows Vista operating system, also scheduled for release this year, and for Windows XP systems that have Microsoft's Service Pack 2 update installed on them.