Tag: INTERNET EXPLORER 7

A brief recap for those just emerging from their caves: Firefox 3 announced the goal of setting the one-day record for downloads of a single piece of software, and on June 17, the browser scored over 8 million downloads. Here's something even the tech-savvy may have missed, though: that OTHER browser, the one with the huge market share, has been running its own download campaign. It's called ...

Recently, we told you about some ways to organize and manage your Firefox bookmarks, and one of our readers asked for similar suggestions to use with Internet Explorer. Since we want Michael and our other IE-using friends to loved too, we put together a few ideas for you. Favorites Box lets you add extra attributes to your bookmarks to make them easier to find and organize. Add comments, ...

Some might say the best way to improve your web browsing experience with Internet Explorer 7 would be to download Firefox or Opera (hey, I didn't say it, "some" said it!). But if you've got you heart set on IE7 for one reason or another, you might want to check out IE7Pro, a plugin that adds a whole bunch of nifty features. Here are a few of our favorites: Tabbed browsing enhancements like ...

With the introduction of both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 recently, one thing is certainly clear - the browser market is finally starting to become interesting again, after years of being stagnant. It really was Mozilla's Firefox browser that shook the sleeping Microsoft behemoth into realizing that it wasn't adequate to simply sit at IE6. Of the notable things that Firefox has been doing ...

According to security firm Secunia, the just-released Internet Explorer 7 contains a "Redirection Information Disclosure" vulnerability, which allows one site to fetch data from another site through the browser, which opens it up to all kinds of cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. Interestingly, the same vulnerability has been known and unpatched in IE6 since April. It's one thing not to patch an ...

I was considering prefacing this post with 'recipe for disaster', but I didn't want the food and cooking news aggregators to pick it up by mistake. Microsoft Watch is reporting that the Redmond giant is planning to use their Automatic Updates service to push IE 7 out to Windows users sooner or later in Q4 once the product is ready to ship. Fortunately for the sysadmins in the crowd, Microsoft will ...

During Monday's keynote at Microsoft's MIX06 conference, Bill Gates turned a few heads by admitting that they had screwed up in allowing Internet Explorer to languish for so long without an update. Duh for sure, but it's refreshing to hear it straight from the horse's mouth. Gates said that beginning with Internet Explorer 7, set to make its debut later this year, the Big Blue E will be seeing a ...

A recent build of Internet Explorer 7 labeled Beta 2 preview (build 5299) has been leaked to the web. Originally posted on Windows news site JCXP but removed at Microsoft's no doubt stern request, the leaked build is still available at other sites such as CyberNet, as well as BitTorrent networks. JCXP still has a more than a dozen screenshots, so if you're curious but not curious enough to ...