It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Microsoft does it

Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by throwaway64 on Friday May 11, 2012 @08:02PM (#3962075)

so we can trust IE to be much more secure and not have problems?

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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by Tloewald on Friday May 11, 2012 @09:52PM (#3962371)

No, but ie + other browsers is guaranteed to be less secure than just IE.

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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by snupples on Friday May 11, 2012 @11:38PM (#3962646)

Not if you don't use IE

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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by Tloewald on Saturday May 12, 2012 @10:34AM (#3963972)

IE will be used as a browser widget at API level by third party apps, so using it will be almost unavoidable.

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Re:It's OK for Apple to block Firefox, but wrong when Micros... by pcwalton on Saturday May 12, 2012 @01:35PM (#3964560)

I suspect it's likely that apps that wish to use an alternative rendering engine for untrusted content would use IE only for trusted content.

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