I just allowed Win7 update to install ie9 and REALLY wish I hadn't.
Immediately terminal issues:
1. No full time display of "Protected mode" status - DANGEROUS!
I use Eudora - and as delightful as it is (even essential) in features like truly UNLIMITED archiving without extension devices (lke PST's or folders,) and much better security even in its dotage, compared with Outlook or any Microshaft product; it has one issue: It has begun running any ie spawned through an email link with "Protected mode: OFF."
So it's obviously UNACCEPTABLE for ie not to display protected mode status AT ALL TIMES.
2. I use Favorites AND History extensively.
Not to have them available, easily, with one click, at the upper left of the screen; is also UNACCEPTABLE.
3. I also use "Page: Save (as)" extensively. Ie9 makes this excruciating with FAR too many menu levels needed.
Conclusion: ie 9 has minimalized the functions I use most often, and buried them in unacceptably deep menu levels. It is also UNSAFE with the Protected mode display issue.
And don't even bring up other browsers.
Last week I FINALLY decided to try Chrome and installed it from a 'safe' (Google) source.
TWO WEEKS of S.M,A.R.T Rootkit/Trojan infections ensued,
on EVERY COMPUTER IN THE HOUSE ! (Obviously the router's IP was targeted.) Never again.
Immediately terminal issues:
1. No full time display of "Protected mode" status - DANGEROUS!
I use Eudora - and as delightful as it is (even essential) in features like truly UNLIMITED archiving without extension devices (lke PST's or folders,) and much better security even in its dotage, compared with Outlook or any Microshaft product; it has one issue: It has begun running any ie spawned through an email link with "Protected mode: OFF."
So it's obviously UNACCEPTABLE for ie not to display protected mode status AT ALL TIMES.
2. I use Favorites AND History extensively.
Not to have them available, easily, with one click, at the upper left of the screen; is also UNACCEPTABLE.
3. I also use "Page: Save (as)" extensively. Ie9 makes this excruciating with FAR too many menu levels needed.
Conclusion: ie 9 has minimalized the functions I use most often, and buried them in unacceptably deep menu levels. It is also UNSAFE with the Protected mode display issue.
And don't even bring up other browsers.
Last week I FINALLY decided to try Chrome and installed it from a 'safe' (Google) source.
TWO WEEKS of S.M,A.R.T Rootkit/Trojan infections ensued,
on EVERY COMPUTER IN THE HOUSE ! (Obviously the router's IP was targeted.) Never again.
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