On Sun, 15 Jan 2017, Yasha Karant wrote:

> I understand that this not an Apple forum.  However, my spouse has been 
> assigned an Apple iPad 2 Air from our university administration, and she was 
> reluctant for political reasons to demand a Linux or Android "equivalent" of 
> this unit.
>
> I have been attempting to configure it .  I have found that Mozilla does not 
> support this platform:  (quoting from Mozilla) Mozilla.org 
> <http://Mozilla.org> does not have any version of Thunderbird and Firefox for 
> iOS due to Apple's restrictions on the JavaScript and browser engines that 
> can be used.

Would a request for an Apple laptop be be politically acceptable ?

In my experience a tablet is read-mostly; a university should
understand that people may need a device which allows meaningful
content to be created/modified even when the internet is not available.