#No internet explorer install

Both Firefox and Chrome do some checking for outdated extensions. Buggy browser extensions/plugins are often targeted by bad guys. Now, both Firefox and Chrome have a huge number of available extensions. ActiveX was the first approach to extending browsers with extra features and functions. The lack of security in ActiveX is what prompted me to jump on the Firefox bandwagon even prior to version 1.0.ДЄctiveX may be locked down a bit more than it used to be, but how many Internet Explorer users understand the security related prompts about running an ActiveX control, let alone the configuration options for ActiveX? To me, a browser that doesn't support ActiveX is safer.Д¦. And speaking of Flash, it exists in Internet Explorer as an ActiveX control. As I wrote about recently, I only use Flash from within Chrome which automatically, quickly and quietly updates the Flash player.ДҐ. In this day and age, this is not acceptable Flash is too popular and too buggy.

#No internet explorer install

And, when they are notified, they need to manually install the new version of Flash. Internet Explorer users with Flash enabled in their browser get notified of new versions of Flash using a very flawed system. The topic of bugs in popular software brings Adobe's Flash Player to mind. The last release of IE patches included a fix to a bug that Microsoft had been told about six months ago.Д¤.

In addition, I get the feeling that Microsoft is just slow in fixing Internet Explorer bugs.

Neither Firefox nor Chrome, my preferred browsers, are locked into a schedule.ДЈ. But, bugs are not discovered on a schedule which means IE users remain vulnerable to know bugs until the next scheduled bug fix roll-out. Microsoft fixes bugs in Internet Explorer on a fixed schedule.