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 I'm documenting this as I'm doing it ... I'm trying to stick the extensions in the ALL Users section or the slightly worse Default user's section.
+== Needed Features ==
+The biggest pet peeve our users had was losing their Favorites in IE when getting a new computer or due to a harddrive failure.  It was tedious and often forgotten to back these up my the tech staff.  I easily remedied this using Active Directory to redirect the Favorites location to a network share in the form:  \\server\share\Favorites\%username%.
+At this point it's a showstopper for me to deploy Firefox in our enterprise without being able to redirect the bookmarks location.  With Firefox's additional features over IE, I can also see a need to redirect the add-ons location and search plugins location.
+I had thought about redirecting the entire profile folder to a new location, which is possible using the third-party tools below.  However, I believe since this will put a lock on the profile, firefox would only be allowed to open on one computer.  This is not desirable since I myself (and others) will often have my desktop computer and laptop logged on with Firefox open.
+In my opinion, once these shortcomings are met (preferably via an adm template), in addition to an msi install, then Firefox will make great inroads into the corporate environment.
 == Useful Tools ==