Summary Google Chrome includes a ‘predictive’ network capability designed to increase the user browsing experience. As designed, this feature ‘pre-fetches’ pages based on the values entered by the user or instructions by a website. Problem When enabled, the predictive feature …
Browsium Catalyst has the ability to define Rule actions based on several categories: Whole/Partial URL String Pattern Matching Security Zone Internet Domain This knowledge base article reviews how Security Zones work and ways to ensure proper use of Security Zones …
The Browsium Catalyst 1.0.1 Release Notes provide specific details on what’s new and known issues for this version. Browsium-Catalyst-1.0.1-ReleaseNotes.pdf
Summary The first page loaded when a browser is launched is known as the ‘homepage’. Organizations using Browsium Catalyst may want to ensure users view the corporate homepage using either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. This article covers some known …
The Browsium Catalyst Evaluation Kit can be used on an unlimited number of PCs in your organization and be used to test both local registry and Group Policy deployment. It will time out 30 days after installation on each system …
Google has added functionality to Chrome version 25 and later to prevent software installers from enabling extensions for Chrome by default. Details on this Chrome feature can be found here. This may impact the Catalyst Client-Add-on after installation as client …
Summary Modern browsers include more security and privacy features than ever before. One of these new features provides the ability for users to avoid leaving ‘tracks’ on the local computer about where they have browsed and sites visited. Internet Explorer …
The Browsium Catalyst Client Add-on installer requires a machine-wide restart because of restrictions in Windows related to elevation of privileges. The Catalyst installer runs an elevated process and therefore can’t automatically restart browsers or start the Catalyst Controller. Double clicking the Catalyst …
Yes, any address with a valid protocol (scheme) prepended to it that is recognized by the operating system to be opened up in a browser will be manageable from Catalyst.
Catalyst currently handles top-level navigations only. For example, if a page primarysite.com contains a sub-frame from anothersite.com, only primarysite.com, the top-level page, is used in evaluating the Catalyst rules.
Catalyst follows the Windows Policy-Preference standard, the same standard followed by all Microsoft products. The following list is in order of precedence, 1 being the highest and 4 being the lowest: Machine policy (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Browsium) User Policy (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Browsium) User Preference (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Browsium) …
Yes, any enterprise software distribution tool can be used. The Catalyst client software installer is an MSI file and the settings are stored in an XML file for flat-file distribution (or an Group Policy template for Active Directory distribution).
Summary By default, Windows Update will only run in Internet Explorer when run on Windows XP. (Windows Update has its own Control Panel Applet on Windows 7). If the Block Other Requests setting for Internet Explorer is enabled in Catalyst, …
Using “Absolute URI” and “Is” in your rule is handy when you need an exact match to a very specific page, but don’t need everything else on the site to use an Ion or Catalyst rule. But “Absolute URI”is picky: it …
Note: This issue has been addressed in Catalyst 1.0.1. Summary Windows 7 includes a feature to streamline the experience when opening recently viewed items. The Jump List feature is designed to take you right to the document or website you …
Note: This issue has been addressed in Catalyst 1.0.1. Problem: On systems with only the Catalyst client installed, the Controller.exe process may fail to start. The issue is caused by a missing or unreadable required Registry Key which should be …
Note: This issue has been addressed in Catalyst 1.0.1. New projects created in Catalyst Configuration Manager assume that all client systems include Chrome and Firefox browsers, in addition to the built-in version of Internet Explorer. By default, these project files …
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