Adobe announced in January that they would better integrate Flash Player with browser privacy controls for managing local storage. It basically meant that the storage of future Adobe Flash Player versions could be controlled directly by a web browser’s web history deletion options. Flash Cookies, or local shared objects, are stored outside of the browser’s [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

It was more or less clear that Microsoft’s upcoming web browser Internet Explorer 10 would not support Windows XP, considering that Internet Explorer 9 did not support the operating system as well. Windows Vista users on the other hand were caught by surprise that their operating system would not be supported by IE10 as well. [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Yesterday’s monthly patch day was a big one, with 17 patches fixing a total of 64 security issues in Microsoft products. Affected applications include Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Internet Explorer. If you look closer you notice that nine of the 17 patches have a maximum severity rating of critical, the highest possible rating. The [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Security, Windows

Nope, this isn’t a belated April fool, with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser only just out of the door and not even delivered to many users yet through Windows Update, the first platform preview of their next version, IE10 is already available to grab at the Microsoft IE Test Drive website. The first demonstration of the [...]

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The topic came up recently on our How To Uninstall Windows Internet Explorer 9 guide: Is it possible to remove or uninstall Internet Explorer 8 from Windows 7? The short answer is no, it is not. At least not if you mean to completely remove the web browser from the operating system. Internet Explorer 8 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Internet Explorer

Microsoft added the feature to pin websites in Internet Explorer 9. Users who run the Windows 7 operating system are currently the only ones who can make use of that option. You may recall that Windows 7 users can pin programs, files and other data to the Windows 7 taskbar for faster access, and a [...]

Categories: Email, Internet Explorer, Microsoft

Microsoft has released the long awaited new version of Internet Explorer a few days ago. Internet Explorer 9 is currently only available via direct download, and not via Windows Update or another updating mechanism. That limits the reach of the browser considerably for now. This will change on March 21 when Internet Explorer 9 will [...]

Categories: Internet Explorer

Have you ever noticed web history suggestions in Internet Explorer 8 or IE9 even though you have deleted the history and the index.dat file in Windows previously? This is caused by the integration of Internet Explorer’s history in Windows Search. Internet Explorer 8′s and Internet Explorer 9′s web addresses are automatically indexed by Windows Search, [...]

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Sebastian Anthony over at the Download Squad today looked at the total number of downloads of Internet Explorer 9 in the first 24 hours of release. He mentioned that the 2.3 million figure looked impressive at first, but not so much anymore when it is compared to the Firefox 3.5 release which managed to break [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Internet Explorer