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Big Issues with IE! Beware!

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Big Issues with IE! Beware!

Post by Divia » Wed December 17th, 2008, 3:01 am

Saw this today and while Gate's crew is going to give us a patch for IE, I'm still a little worried. I'm switching over to firefox for now.

Here be the article

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/111811
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Post by SonjaMarie » Wed December 17th, 2008, 3:22 am

I only use IE for during Pinecone surveys otherwise it's Firefox all the way!

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Post by Divia » Wed December 17th, 2008, 3:32 am

Microsoft will be creating a patch that can be downloaded tomorrow. Though I wonder how large the damage is!
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Post by Rowan » Wed December 17th, 2008, 1:38 pm

I only use the Microsoft programs I'm forced to use. At home on my laptop, I have only Windows Vista. Everything else is non-Microsoft. If I could afford one, I'd get a Mac.
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Post by Leo62 » Wed December 17th, 2008, 2:58 pm

[quote=""Divia""] I'm switching over to firefox for now.

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Divia - if I were you, I wouldn't bother switching back. ;)
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Post by Rowan » Wed December 17th, 2008, 4:25 pm

Agreed. 100%
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Post by LCW » Wed December 17th, 2008, 4:54 pm

I use IE all the time but I have a really good firewall on my lap top. I just switched it to "high". I've found that with Firefox some of the websites and things on my computer don't work right. I've always hated Firefox. Those are the only two I'm familiar with. Are there any other programs that are good?
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Post by Rowan » Wed December 17th, 2008, 5:05 pm

Google has created Chrome. I have downloaded it but not done anything with it.

Is this applicable world wide or only in US?
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Post by princess garnet » Wed December 17th, 2008, 7:06 pm

I got the new Mac book and got the Microsoft Student edition.
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Post by diamondlil » Wed December 17th, 2008, 7:54 pm

[quote=""Rowan""]Google has created Chrome. I have downloaded it but not done anything with it.

Is this applicable world wide or only in US?[/quote]


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