Posted on 07/14/2015 6:39:22 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
I have a laptop with Windows 7 Pro installed and a couple years ago on one of the MS monthly downloads IE 11 was installed. It corrupted my laptop and I had to take it in to where I bought it - got it fixed for $100. I just downloaded the July updates and again did not download IE 11. Is it now safe to download and use?
When I had my problem they told me they had seen a number of similar problems with IE 11, and this was not uncommon with IE when the upgrades first come out.
Thoughts, please.
I would encourage you to upgrade from 10 to 11. IE 11 has a number of useful improvements over earlier versions.
One in particular is that 11 deprecates the old RC4 cipher suite for encryption. This is a critical security plus.
11 is said to perform faster than 10, even faster in some instances than Firefox or Chrome. I can't personally vouch for that, but only because I don't use IE enough to give a fair speed rating to it. It's also alleged to have a smaller memory footprint which is handy in a system with only a few GB of RAM.
I can't advise about the tools, since I don't use them. But if you would use them, I'd say it's worth a try at least.
Sorry I can't be more strongly pro/con but I want to be fair and my own experience with IE is only a tiny sample.
Thank you for bringing it up. Will read later.
No kidding.
I don’t believe in boycotts myself, too inconvenient. ;p
I suspect it will be quite a while before we upgrade to 10. The Enterprise Infrastructure group has just finished moving everyone to Windows 7 and that took about a year. We have over 100k employees and are in a very conservative field so it will take quite a bit of analysis and time.
I use it quite a lot on a half a dozen different configurations of Windows 7 and W8. I think it is faster than Chrome about 1/2 the time, the other half it’s close. I don’t endorse any browser config because I have learned over the years that they all seam to perform very differently for people based on their configurations. I think most performance issues may be caused by toolbars, plugins, and weird AV combinations. I personally run one firewall and one AV only. Whenever I run into a system with more running, it always is f’ed up imho.
The old IE is bad meme probably is more of a holdover than a current issue.
The most important one is the ActiveX control. If you disable it, you can individually authorize sites to run it if you want to watch some Flash.
I use Firefox as my main browser, but I have it so locked down on scripts (NoScript, Ghostery, etc) that I use IE 11 if I want to go to a poorly written site and not have to adjust all of the settings. Haven’t had any problems with 11 for those limited uses.
Thanks for the ping.
Do you recommend Pale Moon?
Yes.
http://secunia.com/resources/vulnerability-review/update-top50/
Vulnerabilities found in the 50 most used programs, for 2014:
Google Chrome: 504
Microsoft Internet Explorer: 289
Mozilla Firefox: 171
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