#IS INTERNET EXPLORER STILL SUPPORTED PDF#
#IS INTERNET EXPLORER STILL SUPPORTED INSTALL#
#IS INTERNET EXPLORER STILL SUPPORTED PORTABLE#

In terms of browsers, you could use one copy of a portable browser to test new extensions. A portable application is totally self-contained, which lets you have multiple installed copies that are totally independent of each other. There is no portable version of Internet Explorer. There are portable versions of both Firefox and Chrome. On Windows, I am a huge fan of portable applications, Windows programs that can run without first being installed. Internet Explorer (at least up to version 8) can't do this.Р”РЋ0. And, if you use multiple computers, both Firefox and Chrome have built-in features to synchronize bookmarks and more between different instances of the browser. Firefox and Chrome provide a cross-platform experience (including Linux) that Internet Explorer does not.Р”В©. Many people use more than one computer and are likely to deal with more than one operating system. Of these, the latest version of Internet Explorer, version 9, runs on only one. The most popular operating systems are, I believe, Windows XP, Windows 7 and OS X. Better still, in Chrome, even if your plug-in gets hit by zero day attack, the most frequently attacked plug-ins, Adobe Flash Player and Reader, run in a sandbox so the attack canР’вЂ™t get to your PCР’вЂ™s operating system.Р”РЃ.

#IS INTERNET EXPLORER STILL SUPPORTED PDF#

these days when attacking Web-plug ins, such as Adobe Flash is every hackerР’вЂ™s favorite new trick, IE 9 doesnР’вЂ™t alert you if youР’вЂ™re not running the latest plug-in, which Firefox does with Plug-in Check or automatically update them ala Chrome with its built-in PDF and Flash software. Both Firefox and Chrome do some checking for outdated extensions. Buggy browser extensions/plugins are often targeted by bad guys. Now, both Firefox and Chrome have a huge number of available extensions. ActiveX was the first approach to extending browsers with extra features and functions. The lack of security in ActiveX is what prompted me to jump on the Firefox bandwagon even prior to version 1.0.Р”Р„ctiveX may be locked down a bit more than it used to be, but how many Internet Explorer users understand the security related prompts about running an ActiveX control, let alone the configuration options for ActiveX? To me, a browser that doesn't support ActiveX is safer.Р”В¦. And speaking of Flash, it exists in Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control. As I wrote about recently, I only use Flash from within Chrome which automatically, quickly and quietly updates the Flash player.Р”Тђ. In this day and age, this is not acceptable Flash is too popular and too buggy.

#IS INTERNET EXPLORER STILL SUPPORTED INSTALL#

And, when they are notified, they need to manually install the new version of Flash. Internet Explorer users with Flash enabled in their browser get notified of new versions of Flash using a very flawed system.

The topic of bugs in popular software brings Adobe's Flash Player to mind. The last release of IE patches included a fix to a bug that Microsoft had been told about six months ago.Р”В¤.

In addition, I get the feeling that Microsoft is just slow in fixing Internet Explorer bugs. Neither Firefox nor Chrome, my preferred browsers, are locked into a schedule.Р”Р€. But, bugs are not discovered on a schedule which means IE users remain vulnerable to know bugs until the next scheduled bug fix roll-out. Microsoft fixes bugs in Internet Explorer on a fixed schedule.

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