Firefox on Windows (cough ... ) problem

[Evan Leibovitch]

D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> I understand that there have also been security upgrades to IE recently, one of which has been to switch everyone to IE8.  I could be wrong since I don't pay attention to Windows or IE.
>   
In my limited sample size (two Windows systems; one Vista, one XP) my
experience is that IE7 users are getting IE upgrades, and I was
surprised to see that IE8 is not listed as a necessary or even
recommended optional install from Windows Update. I had to manually go
to the IE8 site to manually initiate a download.

(I have encouraged the update to people I know because IE8 is by default
more compliant to web standards and even reportedly breaks some old
sites that were done with non-standard FrontPage-isms.)

I have has no problems with my FF-Win setups, though I don't use the
combination very heavily.

- Evan

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