Thanks Scott.
Cy
-- Scott McNay <wizard@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Cyril,
Friday, February 25, 2005, 4:37:46 PM, you wrote:
cjc> From the traffic on PCHELPERS regarding Firefox I get
cjc> the impression that many of you are using it. I have it installed
cjc> and have tried to use it but there are a number of WEB sites
cjc> where the browser just does not work.
cjc> Some examples are pretty important sites to me such as
cjc> certain functions on ETRADE, certain functions in banking on
cjc> line, writing checks etc. downloading microsoft updates under
cjc> certin circumstances. I have not made a list of them but it seems
cjc> like there are enough of them to make it somewhat irritating.
If you are heavy into banking sites and so forth, then you're likely
to have trouble. Firefox does not support ActiveX (which is entirely a
Microsoft creation), which is used by WindowsUpdate, OfficeUpdate, the
various online antivirus scanners, etc. Firefox also does certain
other things slightly differently, or has different default security
settings than IE has, and the differences are enough to cause problems.
There's a Firefox plugin named IEView, which allows you to right-click
on a link to open a specific link in IE.
--
Scott.
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