Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010)

Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by throwawaysugar on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:48AM (#38673596)

Winkey+R and then

    powershell -Command "& {Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US' -OutFile 'Firefox.exe'}"

Not saying it's ergonomic but since you asked ;-)

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by askonomm on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:50AM (#38673616)

I mean ... I guess this works.

Edit: Actually now that I think about it I'm saving this to avoid using Edge myself in the future. Thank you!

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by jodrellblank on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:39PM (#38676717)

-Command “& {thing}”

is the same as

-Command “thing”

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by throwawaysugar on Monday December 18, 2023 @09:07AM (#38682688)

Makes sense, sorry... I hate PowerShell tbh. I just googled/ChatGPT'd that!

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Re:Internet Explorer is Evil: The Story (2010) by extraduder_ire on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:47PM (#38678727)

Don't think they still have an FTP site, but I used the trick of opening ftp.mozilla.org in explorer to get an installer at least twice during the XP era. That said, I also used the MSN browser for fun sometimes, as well as web browsing in explorer.exe.

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