Get rid of IE6!

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05-03-2011, 02:47 PM
Marbian

I thought IE6 went down ages ago! I haven't heard of it for a long time. Saying that, I don't use internet explorer at all anymore. Chrome is the beast these days.

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Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx

Agreed. I agree with the banners for IE6 because Microsoft want people to get upgrading to more newer versions and what not but you can't tell people to switch over to IE8 to Chrome when they don't want. Anyway, they can all go to IE9 when it's released fully.

IE9 was released fully 2 weeks ago-ish.
05-03-2011, 02:50 PM
Recursion

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

They should still be smart enough not to use IE8 with is still garbage. If they wont move over to Chrome which is a million times better they can move over to the current release if IE9 which is a thousand times better.

No, you don't understand, on a large multiuser, multimachine, network like in a school or corporate environment, moving away from IE is no simple task in a domain environment. If I want to quickly push changes to Internet Explorer I can change some group policies (also user based) and just refresh them, if I rolled out Chrome or Firefox my user-based settings would be much more difficult to manage across an entire network.
05-03-2011, 02:51 PM
HotelUser

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Originally Posted by Recursion

No, you don't understand, on a large multiuser, multimachine, network like in a school or corporate environment, moving away from IE is no simple task in a domain environment. If I want to quickly push changes to Internet Explorer I can change some group policies (also user based) and just refresh them, if I rolled out Chrome or Firefox my user-based settings would be much more difficult to manage.

No that's silly you can move the appdata or just use IE9.

IE8 is trash and nobody should use it.
05-03-2011, 03:20 PM
Recursion

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

No that's silly you can move the appdata or just use IE9.

IE8 is trash and nobody should use it.

IE9 is still release candidate and having to modify user profiles everytime I want to make changes is a rediculous way of doing things, I'd have to modify user profiles for each student group and then go through every staff profile changing their app data whilst hoping I haven't modified any user permissions or broken anything else, it's a waste of time.

EDIT: Looked it up, Chrome doesn't even store it's User profile data in the roaming profile, so that totally breaks any sort of consistency across the network when they log onto another machine.
05-03-2011, 03:23 PM
efq

Why don't they just release one last update that screws their IE6 browser up so they uninstall :D
05-03-2011, 03:45 PM
xxMATTGxx

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Originally Posted by Conceitex

I thought IE6 went down ages ago! I haven't heard of it for a long time. Saying that, I don't use internet explorer at all anymore. Chrome is the beast these days.

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IE9 was released fully 2 weeks ago-ish.

Not released in that way, the release candidate is out but not a release where normal users would get it.
05-03-2011, 04:23 PM
Luke

I managed to talk the school into running a small trial for Firefox, and in the end, we used this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
It hasn't been distributed to the whole school yet (and probably never will seems as it's closing in 5-6 months?) but for the 10-20 people that are using it, it seems to work fine and at any workstation?
05-03-2011, 07:54 PM
Recursion

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Originally Posted by Luke

I managed to talk the school into running a small trial for Firefox, and in the end, we used this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefoxadm/
It hasn't been distributed to the whole school yet (and probably never will seems as it's closing in 5-6 months?) but for the 10-20 people that are using it, it seems to work fine and at any workstation?

Interesting, might give it a go
05-03-2011, 09:49 PM
HotelUser

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Originally Posted by Recursion

Interesting, might give it a go

Well now that we've cleared that up can we set the torches on IE 8 and below then :)
05-03-2011, 10:13 PM
xxMATTGxx

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Originally Posted by HotelUser

Well now that we've cleared that up can we set the torches on IE 8 and below then :)

Not really :P

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