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
>
>
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