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Xeen:
Win XP service pack 2 will feature many improvements to Internet Exploder.

 
quote:Microsoft said the browser will be updated dramatically in order to thwart malicious hacking attempts and to offer a more secure browsing experience.
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quote:First up is a major change to the way security policies are applied to deal with ActiveX Controls, the technology that is automatically downloaded and executed by the browser. ActiveX vulnerabilities are often found in IE; Microsoft said XP SP2 will apply security policies consistently at the source of the URL binding: URLMON.
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quote:Once XP Service Pack is released (expected in the second quarter next year), Microsoft said IE will be tweaked to follow stricter rules to reduce the risk of attacks via MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Handling (define). In the modified browser, IE will require that all file-type information provided by Web servers be consistent to avoid spoofing of the MIME-handling logic.
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quote:The company has also integrated an add-on crash detection feature in IE to detect browser crashes that are related to an add-on. When the add-on is successfully identified, IE will then present the information and give the user the option of disabling add-ons in order to diagnose frequent crashes and improve the overall stability of the browser.
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quote:The IE tweaks also include a Pop-Up Manager that blocks unwanted pop-up windows from launching
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Is this bad news for Mozilla?

The Anti-Microsoft:
What story is that from?

Xeen:
http://boston.internet.com/news/article.php/3289571

cahult:
This is great news for Mozilla. The more Microsplash works on IE the more bloated it will get. I

Stryker:
no tabbed browsing? no image blocking? no site-by-site cookie manager? the ability to choose what sites can have popups? no "open last page visited" instead of a homepage? and of course a crappy download manager... A featureless browser the size of a whale. No thanks.

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