Dragaera

Problems with Microsoft Internet explorer and Windows explorer

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Fri Jan 21 04:56:58 PST 2005

Mark Tiller wrote:

> Some web sites ONLY work in Internet Explorer (IE), however, you can
> download an extension to Firefox called "View in IE".  If the page
> doesn't display properly in Firefox, you right-click and select "View
> in IE" and it loads that page in IE.  That and Windows Update are the
> only reasons I keep IE on my systems at all.

Partly this is because of dumb checking on the web page, and partly because
IE allows tools such as Active-X which other browsers deem too dangerous to
allow.

If you use more than one browser, Optool is a handy utility:

http://www.kreacom.dk/tools/optool/