OT - Automatic Internet Explorer Updates

 Now and again, we discuss different browsers and our experiences with
them. In case you haven't picked it up, from January, Microsoft will
start silently updating Internet Explorer to the latest version - this
isn't security updates, it's updating IE7, say, to IE9.

More info here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16214912.

It may be an issue for some people. I use Chrome most of the time but
I've found, e.g., that IE is more reliable when I'm doing my online
tax return, provided I use IE7. IE8 and IE9 don't work.

So if you're concerned, watch out for the tools MS say they're going
to offer to prevent this silent update.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling (after the great storm) from
the usually dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.

 

I assume setting updates to require ones acceptance will cover this as
well.
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Martin

 

It looks like that but, IME, a lot of people set automatic updates to
"automatic". Some set important updates to automatic and optional ones
to "prompt" (though this is risky as the logic of what's important and
optional often escapes me) but "prompt" means that you need to
remember to manually fire up the update program and look. But then the
question becomes will the IE silent update be classed as important or
optional.

The danger is that people will just turn auto updating off entirely
and forget about it which will be a potentially world-wide security
problem tomorrow when someone exploits all the unfixed loopholes.

Cheers, Jake
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Urgling (after the great storm) from
the usually dryer (east) end of Swansea Bay.

 
The new version or maybe a new version of Google is annoying me quite
deeply at the moment.
If I type anything into the search window at the top the browser goes
off to find stuff before I have even finished which is really
distracting! AND for some reason i have a time lag as i type in the text
since upgrading rather like the olden days when the computer had to
catch up with watch you were keyboarding:)

and NO i don't want google's idea of "relevant" to what i might be
searching for - it never is :)
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Janet Tweedy

 On 17/12/2011 15:33, Janet Tweedy wrote:

That is one advantage of using Firefox with NoScript. I don't allow
Google permission to run scripts, thus I can type the whole search
expression in without it harassing me with irrelevant information.

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