Internet Explorer
seems to loose ground. Market share, anyway.
Given the trouble I encounter with the new version, I’m not at all surprised:
- Opening a secured site, the site data is not passed to tabs opened from that site. For instance, opening webmail signals a validity problem with the certificate. Accepted. But when opening an e-mail in a separate window, the same message shows up and I have to login a second time. I I open an attachment in yet another tab, it’s all the same. But oh wonder: Closing the tabs, a new creation does NOT signal an error, nor request login. A fourth window however, will.
- Why can’t I simply say “accept this exception to the rules” ????
- Login to the blog, something is severly wrong again. The data is not kept alive; all cookies seem ‘gone’ and the admin pages won’t show up; IE ” cannot display the website”.
For the rest, it runs fine, it has some nice features tha actually DO work :). But Microsoft should get the basics right in the first place. And that’s simply where Firefox is superior:
- Openeing a new tabl from a secure site takes it’s credentials ALL of them
- It’s easy to accept a certificate where something is ‘wrong’ (in my case, the CA is “untrusted”, but I know it to right)
- Data once got is used properly. I hardly have any problems during login (or it’s just the PHP engine on OpenVMS)
So the blogs will be administred suing Firefox (under Ubuntu), IE just for convenience – some sites rely on it)
BTW: getting off Microsoft when possible is not that easy. I’ll have to wait for a new laptop (with a bigger disk) before I can run either Linux (Ubuntu, most likely) and Windows (will be Vista, by Company Policy). But until that time, Ubuntu in a Windows-based VM is no problem.
New Blog in Town
Robert Gezelter – the OpenVMS consultant on OpenVMS.Org, has started an additional blog on hist own (VMS/WASD driven?) site. According the accouncement, it’ll cover all IT, not just OpenVMS. Knowing Robert, the content will be worthwhile. Therefore I added a link in the OpenVMS links.