Posts Tagged ‘ie’

Reuters is reporting that a security flaw in Twitter exposes users’ login credentials. It’s related to a known vulnerability in the Adobe Flash programming language. From the article:

Adobe has told programmers how to address the vulnerability, which was first discovered in 2006, he added, but noted the operators of many websites have failed to respond to the warnings from Adobe.

Some of the comments I’ve seen are wondering why Twitter hasn’t fixed this. I was starting to wonder why the flaw still exists in the Flash programming language, then I realized Adobe can’t be responsible for programmers’ not keeping up.

I’m not an Adobe fan (I don’t use the Acrobat reader on any of my machines and I use Flash only because there’s not much point to surfing the web without it), but I have to say that Adobe has gotten a lot of undeserved bad press lately. The attack on attack on Gmail attributed to China was first attributed to a flaw in the Acrobat Reader, but later found to depend on a flaw in Internet Explorer.

Although the Reuters story didn’t mention this, if I used Twitter, I’d change my password.

Two words: Internet Explorer.

I have been working on a website for a friend. It’s not quite ready for primetime, but It’s come a long way in 20 billable hours.

So, after a nap because my brain was tired, I decided to test it in Internet Explorer.

It didn’t render properly, either in regular mode of “compatibility mode” (It is to laugh). It worked in every other browser I had (Opera, for both Windows and Linux, Firefox, Konqueror, just to name a few) but not in IE.

It took me about 25 minutes and lots of creative language to find the tag that was causing IE to malform the page.

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From MarketWatch, which reports that Microsoft

“unveiled Internet Explorer 8, the newest version of its Web browser. The software will be available for download in 25 languages at noon Eastern Time on Thursday at Microsoft’s Website.”

Here is a link to the IE 8 webpage.

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On my podcast, I ran through a TechTweak to continue a download if the download is taking a longer time. Little did I know that issue was more Firefox than receiving packets.

When I was beta testing Firefox, I noticed that downloading files took a lot longer and caused the browser to actually run slower. I posted a bug report on Mozilla.org. I mentioned that I downloaded several items via Firefox and IE, and I saw IE not only did a better job in downloading, it did not affect my browsing habits. I also told them I had seen this happen on more than one machine and plugins do not make any difference. They said (in so many words) this was not a big issue and marked the case “Unconfirmed”.

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2 hours of great information. We talked about a lot of great topics.

Hour 1: Browser Plugins, Website, HTC Tilt, Hackintosh

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Before I recorded the 5 min show and Vocalo segments on Sunday, a user came on and had a problem with their ustream computer. I go through what we can do to deduce where the problem is.

Every Monday we have the LIVE SHOW which goes through tech items like this. 7PM EST.

In this Video we talk about:

1. un-Check the “Ustream High Quality Encoder”

2. Version of Flash

3. Trying the program in another browser.

*Note: if you have firefox with lots of plugins installed, you might want to either uninstall or use another browser.

4. Watch the processes to see why the computer crashes

5. Check the event log to see if any errors pop up.

In this case it looked like her video camera drivers were causing the problem.

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Kimbalee has not gotten back as to if that problem worked or not yet. Will keep you posted…

Web browsers are just as debated as Operating Systems and Political affiliations. The Web Browser is the program that allows you to browse the web, so you want the best experience possible. And Just like Operating Systems you can also choose the web browser that you use. So which one is it? IE or Firefox. Maybe Safari? Maybe even Opera?

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