Sorry If I didn't make it clear: I was not suggesting that IE is a 
decent browser or that anyone should install it for any other reason 
that ones similar to what you mention in your first paragraph. Sadly 
there are quite a few Cisco web-based applications, among a few others, 
that only work in IE, not to mention sites like MSDN and extra 
functionality for things like Outlook Web Access. For these rare 
instances I would rather fire up IE6 in wine rather than boot a VM or 
keep a spare laptop around just for use IE.

-Charles

Lisa Kachold wrote:
> The only practical uses for IE6 that I have found are testing browser 
> CSS or Javascript, Extended Validation Certificates, and of course,  
> email filtering maintenance in Sharepoint and Outlook.    
>
> I haven't found anything that even touches 1/2 of what FireBug, Web 
> Development, NoScript, Flickr or the other great plugins available for 
> FireFox 3.0 provides for IE!
>
> Opera is a nice browser and will work, unlike FireFox 3, with 
> Silverlight and some of the web site live conferencing sites that are 
> still broken (ah, I mean "URI secure").  Opera is a fine phone browser 
> BTW, if you run your own applications on a PDA.
>
> Firefox 3.0 now protects systems from URI handling exploits (which 
> allow a computer to be completely taken over via browser in Firefox 
> 2.0.0.5 and/or Explorer (especially when installed together in a 
> Microsoft box via "chrome" see  http://www.metasploit.com). 
>
> These exploits were especially insidious since they often began 
> through a simple trip to a website, and are nearly impossible to track 
> back to the source when XSS proxy exploits are included (which show 
> only the packet traffic to the Apache system with the XSS holes - like 
> Google or another famous public site everyone frequents.  These 
> dangerous exploits are still in place [even to the point of allowing 
> for control of your internal DSL routers - seeing all of your 
> protected cache, passwords and browser history]) so everyone should 
> immediately upgrade their older Linux Firefox to 3.0!  Generally, all 
> you would have seen would have been a File Not Found after a pause, as 
> the nice encrypted tunnel over port 80/443 sets up to announce you 
> everytime you come online to the attacker irregardless of your DHCP 
> address. 
>
> Sometimes, it's just easier to buy a nice DHCP key, move off your 
> files and rebuild under a nice Fedora 9 or Ubuntu - and get all the 
> newest features as well?
>
>
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> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 17:53:33 -0700
> From: charles.jones@ciscolearning.org
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Easy Wine+IE6 setup (was Re: FW: On topic message about Off 
> topic messages Various Solutions)
>
> Just thought I would mention that I've found this to be the easiest 
> way to setup Internet Exploder 6 on linux:
> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Installation
>
> It has a nice installer that sets it all up for you, including flash9 
> plugin, etc.
>
> -Charles
>
> Charles Jones wrote:
>
>     Lisa Kachold wrote:
>
>         Charles, how is that notebook wireless connection and Apache2
>         VirtuaHost SSL issue I helped you troubleshoot for your home
>         DSL Name based virtual hosting during the InstallFest?  I
>         believe that was you?  That was a really fun day?
>
>     That wasn't me, but it sounds like it was indeed fun :-)
>
>
>         Join us for the Next PLUG Linux Security HackFest LAB at UAT
>         on September 11, 2008 Noon!
>
>         Solutions for Filtering Messages either into Trash, Folder
>         and/or Email forwarding:
>
>     Thanks for the tips...I may switch to using server-side filtering
>     instead of making Thunderbird do it :)
>
>     -Charles
>
>