Criticisms of Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer comes under heavy scrutiny from the computer security research community, in part due to its sheer ubiquity. Exploitation of Internet Explorer's security holes has earned IE the reputation as the least secure of the major browsers. As of December 16, 2005, security advisory site Secunia counted 21 unpatched security flaws for Internet Explorer 6, many more and older than for any other browser, even in each individual criticality-level, although some of these flaws only affect Internet Explorer when running on certain ve ...

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Internet Explorer is derived from Spyglass Mosaic, an early commercial web browser. In 1995, Spyglass Mosaic was licensed by Microsoft in an arrangement under which Spyglass would receive a quarterly fee plus a percentage of Microsoft's revenues for the software. Although bearing a name similar to NCSA Mosaic, which was the first widely used browser, Spyglass Mosaic was relatively unknown in its day and did not use any of the NCSA Mosa ...

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The idea of removing Internet Explorer from a Windows system was first proposed during the United States v. Microsoft case. Critics felt that users should have the right to uninstall Internet Explorer freely just like any other application software. One of Microsoft's arguments during the trial was that removing Internet Explorer from Windows may result in system instability. An Australian computer scientist Shane Brooks demonstrated that Windows 98 could in fact run with IE files removed ^{See also:}

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For version 7.0 of Internet Explorer, set to ship with Windows Vista and as a separate download for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, large amounts of the architecture, including the security framework, have been completely overhauled. Partly as a result of these security enhancements, the browser will be a stand-alone application, rather than integrated with the Windows shell, and it will no longer be capable of acting as a file browser. The "beta 1" (build 5112) and "beta 2 preview" (build 5296) pre-rele ...

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While it is not officially possible to keep multiple versions of Internet Explorer on the same machine, some hackers (Joe Maddalone, Ryan Parman, et al.) successfully separated several versions of Internet Explorer making them standalone applications. These were referred as "standalone" IEs and included versions 3.0 to 5.5 SP2. Multiple IEs In Windows Web Design — The web developer Joe Maddalone who found the solution. Skyzyx.com - Standalone Internet Explorer — The web developer Ryan Parman who made the customized browsers files available.See also:

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Internet Explorer has been designed to view the broadest range of web pages and to provide certain features within the operating system, including Windows Update. During the heydays of the historic browser wars, Internet Explorer superseded Netscape by supporting many of the progressive features of the time. Internet Explorer - Component architecture. The Component Object Model (COM) technology is used extensively in Internet Explorer. It allows third parties to add functionalities via Browser Helper Objec ...

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Internet Explorer is subject to a relatively high volume of criticism. Much of this criticism is related to concerns about security: A notable portion of the widespread promulgation of spam, spyware, adware, and computer viruses across the Internet is known to be facilitated by exploitable bugs and flaws in the security architecture of Internet Explorer. Furthermore, a notable number of users and security experts have pointed out that Microsoft has not been sufficiently committed to fixing the browser's exploitable bugs in a timely manner, a ...

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Criticisms of Internet Explorer - Increased Download Size. Over the versions, the download size of Internet Explorer has increased significantly. As of Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (including Outlook Express), the total download size for a typical installation was approximately 25 megabytes. The size varied between 11 (minimal install) and 75 MB (full install). This was much larger than that of some internet suites, for example (based on Windows installer) Opera 8.0 (3.6MB), and Mozilla Suite 1.7.8 (11MB). ...

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During the browser wars of the late 1990s, modifications of Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator were focused on the addition of non-standard features. This is in contrast to more recent browsers which have been designed with web standards in mind. Since version 5, there have been no significant changes in IE's Trident rendering engine. As a result, as of 2005, IE lags behind in support for standards. Although each version of IE has improved standards support, including the introduction of a "standards-compliant mode" in version 6 ...

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