Some IE changes
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Microsoft will release a security update on Tuesday to change the way users interact with IE.
Sites that rely on popular ActiveX controls, such as Apple's QuickTime, RealNetworks' RealPlayer, and Adobe's Flash and Acrobat, are likely to give users problems.
The reason for the change: Microsoft lost a lawsuit to University of California and its startup, Eolas Technologies Inc.
After this update, there are some changes which users need to get used to:
1) Embedded ActiveX content will be inactive. Thus on unmodified sites, ActiveX content will not run. In other words, music won't play or a Flash component won't launch.
2) To activate an interactive ActiveX control, move the mouse over the content -- which now will be boxed -- and click on the pop-up tool tip dialog.
3) Each control on each page must be manually activated in this way.
Very troublesome, but I think IE now will be safer to use. Adobe has posted a short Flash-based demo that shows the activation process. (Ironic note: If you're using IE after the Tuesday update has been applied, you must active the Flash demo manually.)
Microsoft has acknowledged that not all Web site developers will have modified their pages to account for IE's new behavior -- the easiest way for developers to sidestep user activation is to call the ActiveX controls via JavaScript -- and so will also release a patch on Tuesday to delay the changes.
"We will create a “compatibility patch” (deployed like a hotfix) that allows customers to turn off the change for a limited period of time through the June update cycle (2nd Tuesday in June)," wrote Mike Nash, Microsoft's head of security, in a blog posting last month.
The patch will put off the activation requirements until June 13.
"[This is] to provide time for enterprise customers to resolve compatibility issues," added Nash. -
my default is still firefox
unless relli cannot sarport then i use IE -
yep yep Firefox is indeed alot alot better then IEOriginally posted by FireIce:my default is still firefox
unless relli cannot sarport then i use IE -
*looks at browser name* well, this change doesn't affect me
