Microsoft has offered a temporary "Fix It" workaround for a bug in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 that is being exploited on some websites.
The vulnerability involves the way the browser handles cascading style sheets (CSS), triggered by recursive CSS pages where the style sheets include their own address. The flaw was confirmed by Microsoft in December, and it has updated its advisory ... [ read the full article ]
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Unfortunately, the guys over at FireFox are a bit too strict with security (too strict in the sense that you cannot turn off safeguards, even temporarily), so I still need IE for CMS...but I use FF for everything else.
Originally posted by KillerBug: Unfortunately, the guys over at FireFox are a bit too strict with security (too strict in the sense that you cannot turn off safeguards, even temporarily), so I still need IE for CMS...but I use FF for everything else.
too bad the popup blocker doesn't even block anything like ie does
Originally posted by KillerBug: Unfortunately, the guys over at FireFox are a bit too strict with security (too strict in the sense that you cannot turn off safeguards, even temporarily), so I still need IE for CMS...but I use FF for everything else.
That is exactly right and is why FireFox is not a viable alternative for IE. I use FireFox but my main internet browser is AvantBrowser, better features and no blocked sites like in FF. OrcaBrowser is also a good alternative and is based on FireFox but is from the same provider as Avant, both are totally free!
I've had plenty of problems with IE's new ways and this band-aid fix is a joke. Your better off just waiting until they have what might seem to be a real fix.
