By: Nigel Stanley, Practice Leader - IT Security, Bloor Research Published: 24th October 2006 Copyright Bloor Research © 2006

I decided to take the plunge and upgrade one of the PCs chez Stanley to use IE 7.0 the other day.

Like many people I had avoided using IE over the past couple of years in favour of Firefox, which appears to be more secure than IE even if that security is predicated on its smaller market share and therefore less reason for it to be targeted.

Of course I was not surprised to see the first alleged flaw for IE 7.0 hit the headlines 3 attoseconds after I had completed the install (An attosecond is one billionth of one billionth of a second by the way).

Identified by Secunia this flaw apparently allows bad people to do bad things. Clearly this upset Microsoft who counter attacked here saying that it was not a flaw in IE 7.0, in fact the problem lies in Outlook Express.

So that's alright then-IE 7.0 is (so far) fine, but Outlook Express needs some attention. Now, how do I reinstall Firefox again...?

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24th October 2006: 'Duncan' said:

Now we need some coverage of Firefox 2 ...

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27th October 2006: 'Nabil Mish' said:

I've been using IE 7 since Beta 2 and have had very few problems, and have come to like it better than IE 6. I'm using Thunderbird email so the OE problem doesn't affect me, and I believe that MS patches problems at least as quickly as any other vendor. I also occasionally use FireFox, depending on my mood and on the site.

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6th July 2007: 'Nitin' said:

The onchange event in IE 7.0 is not working properly, when we write a validation on onchange event then when validation fails and we write 'event.returnvalue=false and event.cancelbubble =true; obj.focus' then this validation runs only once and allows the second time tabbed out. while in ie 6.0 it is working fine.

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