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viraptor ◴[] No.45126730[source]
It was nice knowing them.

> less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser

Yes Gartner, let's invent a "secure enterprise browser", because there's too much interoperability on the web - there's definitely some business on splitting that up. I'm sure atlassian people love that idea.

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1. jgalt212 ◴[] No.45126787[source]
> less than 10% of organizations have adopted a secure browser

That's the value prop (along with better application interop+) of the Here browser.

+ I do think the File System API did somewhat mitigate this value prop.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

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2. JumpCrisscross ◴[] No.45126844[source]
Also these guys [1].

[1] https://www.island.io

3. viraptor ◴[] No.45126915[source]
I'm not sure we need a new browser for that. Between corporate proxies filtering content and the ability to disable JIT by policy, you get 99% there with security. Add some containers for zero trust / auto-sso and we'd be there... There's really no reason to make a new browser.

It could be a few options away on Firefox for example if people cared about the "secure" part more than the "enterprise sales" part.

4. thewebguyd ◴[] No.45128733[source]
I haven't heard of Here browser until now, but lookin at the website I guess I don't understand what the point is?

For Windows shops, Edge is already an "enterprise browser." I can control literally every aspect of it via MDM policies or Group Policy for the on-prem AD folks. If using EntraID, SSO is already included, and you can go as far as whitelisting sites as well. I can set custom tab groups, pinned tabs, etc all with policy.

Even on non-managed/BYOD devices, once signed in to the work account Edge can be managed the same way via MAM policies. I can even force documents and links from other "work" apps to open in the managed Edge profile.

The only thing Here seems to offer that I couldn't configure Edge to do is the split-pane view in their "Supertabs" but Edge does have the sidebar, that I can configure to be pinned with Teams, Outlook, Copilot, etc.