A Xmas present from Bill Gates.
 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...ec/16/internet

Don't use IE says Microsoft.

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Wouldn't dream of it.... Firefox on Ubuntu thank you very much..... (Firefox on XP when I'm working).

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You would be amazed at how many companies still force their employees to use ie6.

It's a stress at work and human rights issue.

Personally I prefer Chrome....

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Did you notice on the article - Chrome is tied in last place with Safari for security :eek:

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I did notice - for password security.

But the advantage of having such a fast browser....

My second favourite browser is of course Safari (I'm a mac user by choice).

Firefox is good for work as I can take screenshots and comment on them which is swell....

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Safari for Windows. Not on a Mac.

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Am I relatively safe if I'm working through a router with a firewall?

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but it's supposedly a password-security issue with IE7 that Richard Wray is writing about in this article. It's a strange article - the security study he cites was done by a very small consulting company using interesting methodologies: pass/fail tests for mutually exclusive features being scored as though they were independent http://www.info-svc.com/news/2008/12-12/

You cannot possibly reconcile concern about the issues addressed in this article with use of Chrome as a browser.

FWIW I use IE7 at work, and a mixture of IE7 and Firefox at home. I hate Firefox 3 with a vengeance - its instability and general crankiness led me to return to IE7 as I couldn't get FF2 to reinstall.

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you're relatively safe period unless you habitually access Chinese internet gaming sites with a password that you've saved within IE7's automatic password system.

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Nope.

You're relatively safe if you use firefox and don't click on dodgy looking links like this one:

http://freedodgecaliberifyoubyabeer.com

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I personally feel that there's a slight exaggeration in security issues, as long as one is careful where one browses...

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Ta. I don't frequent Chinese gaming sites and my Norton/Spy Sweeper subscriptions are up to date.

I have to confess to being a recent and passionate convert to Chrome. Well fast.

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I find FF3 very good, the only 2 times it's crashed on me were during YouTube sessions. I use Chrome as my second choice browser mainly for YouTube now.

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What's great in Chrome is only having one box for both URLs and Google search - I get all confused now in Safari & FF

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I have a warning about Chrome. I downloaded it, messed around a bit. Decided I couldn't be bothered to figure out how to get my favourites in those boxes at the top. Uninstalled it.

Then I discovered that none of the links in emails in Outlook Express worked as links. By googling the problem, I concluded that my file associations had been changed. Sure enough, the one that should have said ".....iexplore.exe" now said something about "Chrome". So even though I had gone into the control panel and uninstalled Chrome, it didn't fix this. I had to change everything back myself.

That kind of thing really bugs me and it will be a long time before I bother with Chrome again - if ever. I have heard from other people that they found lots of glitches.

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I finally figured how to add bookmarks eventually, ande I don't use Outlook or Express. It was also suggested to me that I don't set Chrome as the default browser.

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There's a patch out for it now. However you have to use internet explorer to get it (lol!). IE->Tools->Windows Update or go to this link...

http://update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/

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Thanks, but I haven't used IE in years. Or any MS product except in extremis.