Legacy browser upsets US DoHS...

[omicron32.livejournal.com]

US Department of Homeland Security say stop using Internet Explorer.

"The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team touched off a storm this week when it recommended for security reasons using browsers other than Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer."

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox

Comments

[achernow.livejournal.com]

It's funny, I have been telling all of my friends to use Firebird/fox for a year now. Did they, of course not, why should they switch from IE? All of a sudden, this warning from DoHS comes out and I get IM after IM asking "which browser should I switch to"

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!

-A

[bottleopener.livejournal.com]

Agreed on the firefox, it is one of the best browsers out there.

Peace

Bottle

[wildkard.livejournal.com]

I still prefer Opera (http://www.opera.com), but Firefox is more "IE-like" and is easier to use. I use both.

Anyway, yeah... a few weeks ago, I got sick of spyware being dumped on the computer of a family member again and again and again, no matter how many times I cleaned it. My solution was I installed firefox, changed the default theme to make it look a lot more like Internet Explorer and changed all the links to start the program. Nobody's complained. In fact, I think the email client is being credited for "making the Internet work better". I'm not even going to try explaining the truth... For good measure, I also locked down all of IE's settings and set it's page to a website of the latest IE vulnerability they were talking about. Just in case they do happen to launch it.

Of course... Next time I'm back there, I'm switching it to the DOJ article. :D