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MSIE Security Updates

Posted by pudge on from the except-for-the-ones-that-it-doesn't dept.

AnamanFan writes "Microsoft has released version 5.2.1 of Internet Explorer for Mac OS X. The only notes I have been able to find on the update is that it 'provides all the latest security and performance enhancements for Internet Explorer 5 for Mac OS X.' Be warned that the installer forces all other running applications to quit, but does not require a reboot and (seems) to not change your Internet browser settings, in case you're using another browser." Also released was MSIE 5.1.5 for Mac OS, which "resolves all security vulnerabilities in previous versions of Internet Explorer 5." Heh.

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  1. Re:All of them? by Gogo+Dodo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    MSIE for Macintosh and Windows do not share the same codebase so many of the vulnerabilities reported for IE for Windows is irrelevant on the Mac. For example, all of the Outlook and ActiveX stuff won't work on a Mac.

  2. No IE for Me (Finally!) by BitGeek · · Score: 5, Informative


    Having spent most of the last year using IE under OSX (and suffering). When Mozilla 1.0 was released, I switched, and other than some minor stability issues I'm happy.

    So, there's no longer a reason to use IE on the mac, and its reign should be at its end.

    Requiring you to quit other applications is unacceptable for an application install, absolutely unacceptable.

    As to security, I simply don't trust MS anymore. And I'm happy to be pretty much MS free.

    PS- to anyone who thinks about running Entourage, it has a 2G mail limit. Their integer actually wraps at 2G so you reach that much mail (and it caches EVERYTHING- news, mail, images, even deleted stuff, so it doesn't take that long) and you're SOL. The app tries to open the file, then starts seeking at a negative index into it and crashes. Serves me right for using an MS product, forewarning to everyone else. (Yes, Mail.app crashed one too many times for me. Still looking for a good mail client.)

    When there's no browser competition, IE was good. But now there's everything- Mozilla, Chimera (really promising), Opera, iCab, OmniWeb and probably other lesser known browsers. That's quite a selection with Mozilla being actually usable, Chimera coming quickly and Opera, iCab and OmniWeb being late "beta" quality. OmniWeb 4.1 might actually be usable, but its too early to say. (Usable to me is a browser that goes a week regularly without crashing, beta is one that can't.)

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  3. Too funny.... by HiredMan · · Score: 4, Funny


    This was a very plate-of-shrimp moment.

    I was surfing this article in OSX IE 5.2 and since I have points I moderating a comment as "funny". When I clicked the "Moderate" button IE blow up on me and want away!

    Ack - started returned to the article and it died on me again. Damn... that really sucks. Anyway - third times a charm. Or maybe iCab is the charm...

    =tkk

    PS All M$ sekurity updates should very clearly read "fixes all KNOWN security issues" - a very important detail.

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