On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:49:52 -0400, George Neuner
<gneuner2/@/comcast.net> wrote:
>WRT trying IE7 (which someone else suggested) ... we have some
>specialized document handling software that's tied to IE6 and Office
>2K. IT won't yet guarantee it to work with newer versions. We just
>got XP on our laptops late last year so I'm not holding my breath for
>updates.
Let me guess.... you're in the insurance industry? I have customer
with a mess of computers that can't use IE7 thanks to some really
awful software written for some obscure client rating software. The
programmers decided to build in their own browser in their software
rather than use a stand alone browser. This was probably done to
"insure compatibility" or some such rot. The way it works is that it
uses the Windoze Explorer libraries with a custom front end. There
are even commerical and free apps that do this:
<http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/>
<http://www.maxthon.com>
<http://www.netcaptor.com> (dead but still works)
Quicken and Quickbooks also use the IE libraries for their internal
browser. Quickbooks 2005 and some other versions literally don't work
on machines with IE7 installed. However, there are patches available:
<http://support.quickbooks.intuit.com/support/ie7resourcecenter.aspx>
Some things didn't quite work the same way in IE7 as in IE6.
Unfortunately, they usually result in a less than graceful
applications crash. My guess(tm) is that this is why you're stuck
with IE6.
I really don't consider it a problem because there are pleny of better
and safer browsers available. I use Mozilla Firefox. For testing
web pages, I also have Safari, Opera, Slimbrowser, NetCaptor, and
Maxthon. I won't install Netscape as it tramples on Firefox. If the
security policies are sufficient screwed up that IE6 can't be fixed,
try one of these. I suggest Firefox. Incidentally, it's worth the
effort just to use the various Add-on's.
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/>
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