Biggest blow to IE

[The Artist]

Browser wars being hot ATM with IE, Firefox and Chrome.

I don't think you could get a bigger blow to your efforts than an entire country being told to switch browsers from IE!

https://mashable.com/2010/01/15/german-government-stop-using-internet-explorer/

[panrider_uk]

It'll only be very temporary:

"They may resume using Explorer after a fix is issued by Microsoft for a critical vulnerability that has been implicated in the Chinese cyberattack against Google."

Mark
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[slipstream]

I don't know why people use IE it creates So many compatibility problems. IE 8 auto updated on my pc with out me knowing and lost compatibility resulting in me loosing days work in studio trying to figure out what happed.

[Flip]

[The Artist]

[panrider_uk]

Switching browsers in an organisation as large as the German government is a massive task.

I would expect a fix for IE to be released before an alternative browser is rolled out.

Mark
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[Banned Again]

Hetzer says he don't like IE8 and look what happens ..

Closing IE is easy for the krauts, world domination, ehtnic culling and well made goods, easy pizzy for the riicht !! ..

[stinkwheel]

In my experience, it can really difficult to get people to change browsers.

I put all of the work computers on firefox, deleted the IE icons and shortcuts and someone was STILL using IE.

I had to uninstall it altogether in the end.

Not as much of a fight as I had with my Dad though. Having spent several hours removing a virus from his PC, I put mozilla on. He promptly had a tantrum and refused to use it becaue he "Wasn't going to start learning how to use a new program now he had the hang of this one.".

I eventually put a shortcut to firefox on his desktop using the IE icon and named it "Internet Explorer", migrated his settings across and uninstalled IE. He'd been using it for more than a week before he twigged.
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[Flip]

[Kickstart]

Hi

And now France backs up Germany:-

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8465038.stm

All the best

Keith
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[stinkwheel]

[panrider_uk]

Microsoft have released a patch Click

Mark
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[LordShaftesbu...]

[The Artist]

https://www.itworld.com/security/93670/widespread-attacks-exploit-newly-patched-ie-bug

even worse

https://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/microsoft-knew-ie-zero-day-flaw-september-012110

I think they are just stupid. I mean they knew about it, why not patch it? They had 4 months to do something about it but left it till the last moment now loads of people are gonna get in the sh1t.

[Flip]

[ThoughtContro...]

Firefox is hardly brilliant tho.

Since 3.0 it's got slower and more crap with each release. Upgraded to 3.6 and got so fcked off I went back to 2.0.0.14

I've got Opera and Chrome as standbys or IE if a site is really a pain in the arse.

Browsers are like OSes, they're all crap in one way or another, it's just what type of crapness you want to deal with.

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[neil.]

I have to take my hat off to my dad, whom I suggested to completely ditch Windows and switch to Linux, 100%. He's 56 and 'average' in terms of his ability at using computers, so we decided to trial things at first, on the premise that Windows was always there to go back to in case something didn't work out. He was also, at the time, in the middle of writing a book in Word ( ) and he spent ages converting it over to OpenOffice, meticulously sorting out image positions etc. He's also been very patient and taken the time to completely unlearn Windows and relearn how to do his day to day stuff with a completely open mind. A year and a half later, he's still Windows free.

For him it's now perfect, as he himself said, "No more defragmenting, viruses or other nasty crap and my pc is a lot faster now, I can just get on with my work". He's just your average desktop user, doesn't play high end games or do anything fancy, apart from a couple of scientific apps that have to run in Windows (so we use a virtual machine for that, because they won't run under Wine, and he finds that easy enough). For everything else, there's an equivalent application on Linux for him, and he's really benefited from the change. So have I, too, as after setting it all up for him, I rarely ever need to provide support or fix things.

My mum on the other hand... complains about how slow her machine is, but is completely unwilling to even hear of or look at anything that isn't Windows, let alone try it, as it's "what she knows, and doesn't want to change", but from what she does on the PC, she could easily switch. Oh well, her choice.

My sister used Linux for a while, got on well with it, but then she bought a MacBook as she had money to burn, and she's happy with that.

BTW, I realise that switching to an alternative OS is definitely not an option for everyone - I'm just telling the story of my experience of a few different kinds of computer user.
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[Flip]

Well, my Dad is still using firefox. That surprised me.

[Kickstart]

Ho hum.

Germany is now telling people to not use Firefox due to a vulnerability.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8580716.stm

All the best

Keith
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[neil.]

[Luke_Retrofly]

Yay, upper to lower leg joint moving swiftly
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