Re: Microsoft to release patch for IE flaw

"Matthew Scott" <scottm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gOCdnRKNOrmpOdfUnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Glenn wrote:

"Rita" <Rita@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8j3lk45bg228lc9msas7fbbbp5st7ur39c@xxxxxxxxxx

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:48:10 -0600, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:14:02 -0600, "Glenn" <minorgo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

"SordoT" <sordoT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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For those of you still using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web
browser,
you can go here and download the emergency security patch.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-078.mspx

IE 7 is much more friendly than Firefox as it's updates don't take
the system down and keep it there. One would think that a defective
patch would be corrected in the next update, but not at firefox.
The above patch has already been distributed if one has automatic
update.

I have never had a Firefox update take the system down and keep it
there. I don't know what you are talking about.

Apparently their test case is identical to your configuration.
However, shortly after the flawed update was made available, another
update appeared that didn't have the problem, it also didn't have a
fix for the problem the previous update created.

My reasons for preferring Firefox are multiple. One of the big
pluses is AdBlock, an add on that keeps ads from annoying one on web pages.
Another add on is Flash Block that allow YOU to decide which Flash
content you care to view.

I have no idea what you are talking about, with IE a banner appears if
there is ad or drop down available and one can chose to view it or
not. Again, I have no idea of how one sees flash content or what you
are talking about as I'm always given the choice and with dialup, I
seldom chose it. Perhaps it's Norton. Now listen closely, no
program remains superior for long, so the criteria is problem
resolution and fixes, an area where all these free software programs
necessarily fail.

There are ads on web pages other than banners or drop down ads.
Smaller ads yet annoying. With AdBlock you simply click on that
ad and make it disappear.
Firefox also has the banner to indicate if some banner or drop
down is available but those are not the kind of ads I was talking
about.
Look, I'm not interested in what browsers people choose to use.
I simply prefer Firefox many times over IE. For a number of
reasons.

Rita, it's all about foresight. Firefox must eventually cave in under the weight of passing from one programmer to the next with little incentive to maintain quality. Actually foresight isn't all that important, just look at all the dead free program carcasses littering the Unix sites. I'm surprised that current Unix derived programs are used successfully on 64 bit systems, but it can't last.

Glenn missed commenting on the most obvious flaw in Firefox: it is coded by ignorant, uneducated Southerners, whereas M$oft Internet Explorer is coded by highly educated and sophisticated Northern intellectuals.

That is obviously the most cogent reason for trusting M$oft Internet Explorer and its update regime and rejecting the patently inferior Firefox. After all, standards must be maintained.


I'm sure the southerners are just as good at coding as those from India. When I was in the business, the comment was after the requirements, specifications and design, coding was that trivial effort needed at the end. Any trade school dropout can code, but they can't design or determine requirements, that take education and intelligence or one's program lies among the Unix litter. Firefox wasn't honest in admitting a flawed update and then bypassing it, that's not professional and reason enough to avoid those sorts of programs.

--

Glenn


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