I stopped using IE when MS refused to make, IDK... IE9 (I think) unavailable for XP. Screw ‘em.
The two times I have installed IE11, it destabilized my system and caused repeated crashes. I had to go back to IE10 and disable automatic updates.
They want to punish win 7 users for refusing to buy win 8 products.
They trashed XP hoping it would force users to go to win 8, but that didn’t work with win 7 still available.
Each and every day Microsoft furnishes yet another incentive to discontinue use of their increasingly inferior software and use other, better software instead.
Browers are the easiest to replace and given the magnificent set of addons for Firefox (despite FF’s many flaws), FF can be made to be a FAR more useful browser than IE, with additions like Adblock Plus, Element Hiding Helper, CookieCuller, BetterPrivacy, DoNotTrackMe, TabMixPlus, IE View, and Visited.
Without addons like these, I find trying to read almost ANY media web page an impossible task because the actual text gets repeatedly covered up and relegated to increasingly smaller parts of the page. I particularly like Element Hider for nuking crap that Adblock Plus misses, as well as adding my own anti-paywall blocks with Adblock Plus like blocking the ppjol website paywall cookie-maker.
Yeah so? Setting floors for updates is pretty common, especially if the code is in the same area. Making multiple versions of the same patch, one to work with the existing patch and one without, is a lot of extra work for dev and test. And in an age of automatic updates unnecessary, get all the updates.
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