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Thursday, July 08, 2004

Mighty Mozilla and Microsoft neglected Internet Explorer

Just a day or so after the bruhaha over Microstupor's long awaited Internet Explorer patch and many articles about how it doesn't work (see this link) now we have a another problem. Mozilla has issued a security update. Unlike Microsoft, the opensource crew has immediately issued a simple to install Patch. Just click here. Read the Newsforge article about this easily corrected problem and find out it is actually part of the Internet Explorer picture. This patch installs in seconds, literally.

Sometimes plugins are needed for Mozilla and Firefox, but the solutions have been quick and painless. These are neat, free, easy to install and use browsers. About the only thing that I can find wrong is that they are tied to AOL in some weird symbiotic relationship. It's possibly AOhell's way of being a thorn in Microsnooze's side? Opensource advocates will overcome any sticky connections due to their intense dislike of cyberthings being exploited. I am on this bandwagon.

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
-Johnny Carson

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