Windows XP and Internet Explorer problem

wev

wev

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Short of a gun to the head or threat of immediate firing, who would use Internet Explorer to begin with?
 
hark

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wev said:
Short of a gun to the head or threat of immediate firing, who would use Internet Explorer to begin with?
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In all honesty, since I learned with IE, I stuck with it until I ran into a computer glitch last summer. Somehow IE became unusable so I switched to Chrome. Now I am so used to Chrome that I have no desire to go back to IE. Had it not been for the computer glitch, I doubt I would have switched.
 
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Moab Man

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We have Windows 7 and 8. I will hold off on 8 for as long as possible. I don't like the smart phone tablet feel of the program and the I want to be a Mac and hide things feel of Win 8. Sure, a lot of it has to do with familiarity, but there is something to be said for why change it if it isn't broke. Like hiding the power off in Win 8. I've know people that couldn't find it so they were just holding the power button to shut it down.
 
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DraganDL

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Right you are Moab Man. Though, these people need not to really HOLD the power on/off button (if held for 4 seconds, it initiates so called "brute force shutdown") - it is sufficient to press it, for a fraction of a second to launch the regular "shut down" procedure.
 
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Mike D90

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I still have XP Pro on my desktop and Vista on the laptop I got from WeeBee. I cannot upgrade anything. I do not use IE though. I use Firefox on both machines.
 
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aroy

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Every one in my family stopped using IE, when Firefox came with tabs. I am still using XP, both 32bit on my laptop and 64 bit on the Desktop. IE is only for those occasions when some reservation programs refuse to run on Firefox (Indian Railways and some other government apps).

I strongly reccommend users to move away from IE to either Firefox or Chrome.
 
Bob Blaylock

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hark said:
Doesn't sound good for those who still use Windows XP and Internet Explorer. I hope no one here does.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/new-security-flaw-affects-all-versions-of-internet-84085229159.html
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Nothing new here. Just a new news story recycling old news. It has always been a very bad idea to use IE for general purpose web browsing; a fact that ought to be obvious to anyone who takes a moment to ponder the significance of the fact that the web browser that he may be using to surf all manner of dodgy web sites is the very same one that, via Microsoft's own Windows Update web site has the authority to download and install updates to the operating system. If it's able to download and install legitimate Windows updates from Microsoft, what do you suppose it's able to download and install from less reputable web sites?
 
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WeeHector

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Bob Blaylock said:
Nothing new here. Just a new news story recycling old news. It has always been a very bad idea to use IE for general purpose web browsing; a fact that ought to be obvious to anyone who takes a moment to ponder the significance of the fact that the web browser that he may be using to surf all manner of dodgy web sites is the very same one that, via Microsoft's own Windows Update web site has the authority to download and install updates to the operating system. If it's able to download and install legitimate Windows updates from Microsoft, what do you suppose it's able to download and install from less reputable web sites?
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What I find strange is that you can't download magnetic torrents from sites like Pirate Bay with Firefox but you can with security-conscious, anti-pirate Microsoft's IE. Strange attitude or programming incompetence?
 
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piperbarb

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WeeHector said:
What I find strange is that you can't download magnetic torrents from sites like Pirate Bay with Firefox but you can with security-conscious, anti-pirate Microsoft's IE. Strange attitude or programming incompetence?
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I have no problems downloading things like that with Firefox, but then I use OS X or Linux.
 
Horoscope Fish

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WeeHector said:
What I find strange is that you can't download magnetic torrents from sites like Pirate Bay with Firefox but you can with security-conscious, anti-pirate Microsoft's IE. Strange attitude or programming incompetence?
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I think you mean "magnet links". You need to install something like uTorrent to handle magnet links and, once you have it installed, FF should have no further issue with them.

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piperbarb

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Horoscope Fish said:
I think you mean "magnet links". You need to install something like uTorrent to handle magnet links and, once you have it installed, FF should have no further issue with them.

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You can also install the standard bit torrent application from the bit torrent site. Transmission, for Ubuntu Linux also works very well, but I don't know if it available for any other OS.
 
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