[GATOR NAVY]

Normally I would only pay passing interest to this because I use Firefox but last night I was looking up some information on our borough website and the pages I was using only worked with Internet Explorer. I thought the days of designing pages of that only worked on one browser were past but apparently not when you are dealing with government.

[Da Coyote]

Not only the govt, but Microsoft contributes in their normal, proprietary, bug-ridden way.

[Red Badger]

Yes, IE attacks my computer every time I try to use it.

THAT’S WHY I USE FIREFOX!!!!!!!!...........

[avacado]

Microsoft should never have been allowed on the Internet.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Oh joy...more work for me......(which isn’t a bad thing now a days).

[wastedyears]

[VideoDoctor]

IE is OUT... FIREFOX is IN.

FIREFOX us a much better Internet browser... and it's FREE.

[hiredhand]

"Interesting" words from a company which produces an operating system which by definition is malware. :-)

[Graybeard58]

I thought the days of designing pages of that only worked on one browser were past but apparently not when you are dealing with government.

I haven't checked lately but it used to be that you had to use I.E. to order from Wal-Mart online.

[Ceebass]

Don’t people have better things to do?

[Ceebass]

Don’t people have better things to do?

[Mojave]

http://www.google.com/chrome

[McGruff]

some originated from hacked pornography sites.

Not going to go there. Wouldn't be prudent.

[js1138]

Other researchers confirmed that attacks were increasingly coming from compromised Web sites.

I've seen a bunch of them.

[exist]

I’m a Firefox guy.

[Centurion2000]

Maybe if M$ would stop generating crappy code this problem might go away.

PROPER software development starts with validating all inputs and decent management of memory allocation.

[RobRoy]

I went to Firefox over two years ago.

I used to run adaware every couple of days. I removed it a couple of months after I switched to firefox.

Haven’t had a problem since.

Firefox simply does not have tentacles into Windows like IE does. It can only be exploited by hackers to a point.

[RobRoy]

I still have IE on my computer for sites that only work with IE. I have not opened it in over a year though. Usually, if a company does not want to bother with making their site Firefox compatible, I don’t want to bother them with my business.

‘Course, for government stuff it is different.Those guys have guns, for crying out loud, and the authority to use ‘em!

[Clinging Bitterly]

I use IE for some sites, particularly sites with content I want to save as portable searchable html files. Mainly because it's easier to use IE to do that in the way it assigns filenames and the available format options. A malware helper is hooked up that alerts on links suspected of containing bad stuff.

A tightened up Portable version of Firefox for almost everything else. I like the PortableApps.com modified version, which does not attach itself to the operating system. Along with the NoScript add on and some assorted media helpers. That setup is sort of bandwidth hungry because it has no cache (to enable use on small flashdrives), but it keeps the junk out of the registry and everything it does put onto the drive is controllable. It has trouble with sites that require execution of some external apps, but mostly ones I wouldn't want to run anyway.

[JimRed]

The company has offered up a total of nine different workarounds for IE users, several of which require editing of the Windows registry, a chore most users assiduously avoid.

And with some of us older dudes it would help to know what the heck a Windows registry IS!

;^)