3/26 I recently installed FireFox for a couple of people in the office.
Now they're using it so much that they want to remove IE. Is this
possible with WinXP or does it break like a crapload of things?
\_ I managed to get rid of IE somehow... I think I went
into the portion that lets you remove parts of added on
windows stuff, like MSN explorer and MSN messenger,
it sucks because now I have to test the "Click back to previous"
website functionality when someone goes to my company's
website, which works just fine in Firebird, but apparently
doesn't in IE, but now I have no way of testing, sucks
to be me.
\_ insert cd, add program.
\_ Isn't the help system for office built on IE?
\_ Why would you remove it? You still need it for certain things.
Like e.g. Microsoft's update site. In any case you can just set
Firefox to be the default. Using Microsoft's "Set Program Access
and Defaults" you can also disable access to IE.
\_ I use Mozilla on mac. There are about 20% or web sites, esp.
foreign ones, where it does not work well or at all.
\_ Do you find that it is better than Safari? I use Safari,
then FireFox, then IE. IE on Mac is slow. Mac needs a decent
browser that is bug-for-bug compatible w/ IE.
\_ IE has been EoLed for years on Mac, but there are still sites
that it can view but the other 4 (Safari, Mozilla, FF, Camino)
can't. Safari was fast in its beta, but ever since 1.0, it
has become intolerably slow while being able to view more and
more pages. I really don't understand what's the issue.
FF still needs work, and Mozilla still has certain trivial
interface oddities. Mozilla is the only one I can configure
to warn me about sending unencrypted text. All 5 browser
together cannot view some pages viewable by IE on PC. I have
never used Opera and haven't touched Omni browser for ages.
An unsolved problem of using so many browsers is the bookmark.
\_ I'm currently looking at ways to 'sandbox' or otherwise restrict
IE as massively as possible. Drop me a mail if interested. -John
\_ uh, run traffic through a proxy and drop anything with IE in the
http headers?
\_ Simple, pragmatic, doable, easy to get past management in
a large company. I like the way you're thinking. Try again,
young padawan. -John
\_ It's no different that whatever wacky thing you're thinking
of. The end result is the same, IE is blocked or otherwise
restricted as massively as possible. How about you share
with all of us nobodies what your fantastic uber Jedi
solution is?
\_ I don't have one, and my goal is not to block IE
but reduce risks inherent from running such a piece
of shit (and no, I can't currently get around it) with
so much potential for fucking things up. Disabling IE
period is pretty simple--restricting the damage it
can do through any number of existing and theoretical
vulnerabilities and still being able to use it for
things like MSUpdate/SUS is not. Sorry for not
stating the complete problem initially. -John
\_ Not to put a dent on your enthusiasm, I have
heard that if you installed the ActiveX plugin
for Mozilla/Firebird/Firefox, Mozilla will also
be prone to all sort of security issue.
Can you or anyone verify that? kngharv |
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