Long story short?
Internet Explorer has always been plagued by problems because Active X allows things to automatically run, just by visiting a webpage. This will never go away till it is either disabled or removed by default from IE.
Starting in IE7 and forward it prompts about Active X Controls before allowing them to run -- even those from Microsoft.
Long story short?
I'm just now looking at this little used mod button ... "auto re-format to bullet points".
I'll be blowing the dust off it some time soon I think.
Starting in IE7 and forward it prompts about Active X Controls before allowing them to run -- even those from Microsoft.
I am aware of this.
But it isn't perfect, and malware authors can use crafted XML pages to whitelist bad controls & cause known bad controls to allow malware to run again. As stated earlier. And these were findings from McAfee researchers. Additionally, this still does nothing to address the fact that IE is very limited in the number of websites it can have open at once without crashing. I have not had time to fully test IE 9 (also as stated earlier) although I know it is faster & more stable than prior versions.
Firefox does have adblock, what do IE or Opera have? Additionally, firefox has other features (as stated earlier) that I use a lot such as highlighting a textual hyperlink, right click, new tab. Also, opening links in IE or Opera, Firefox you can right click + t for new tab. This saves me a lot of time. Can you right click + t for new tab in IE?
Can IE load 1,611 websites without crashing?
I am afraid you are suffering from browser obsession.
You seriously need to lighten up.
I am closing this thread before you wear the forum ink supplies out.