comcast recommending IE7 upgrade

16 years ago

Hi,

I received a notice when logging on this a.m. that Comcast is recommending the IE 7 upgrade, stating I won't have access to many features unless I do the upgrade. My, my......... can they do this ???

salbwil

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fruitjarfla
16 years ago
Comcast is advertising many things but I'll probably leave well enough alone for now. It is your choice to go for IE7 but I understand that many who chose IE7 wanted to go back to IE6. Comcast offers McAfee Security Suite without cost but I'm content with such free stuff as Zonealarm and AVG, along with Spybot, AdAware, and some others that have kept me free from bad guys so far. I do not normally use IE but choose to use the Firefox browser. It will do just about anything I need. Occasionally I must use IE because the websites that I sometimes visit require IE, but it's IE6 that I'm using.
mes444
16 years ago
If your computer is running XP, why do you not want IE7? It's not really very different to use and IE6 is probably not supported by anyone anymore, so updates, etc., for IE6 have stopped. It's probably some security issue with Comcast and IE7 is supposedly more secure.

Just wondering why you don't want it?
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PKponder TX Z7B
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I prefer IE 6 because it doesn't seem to be as locked down as 7 and I'm not onboard with tabbed browsing. It is still available for download at Microsoft along with the updates.

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salbwil
Original Author
16 years ago
I have updated with firefox ; may I now delete the Firefox set up for 1.0 7 exe.from my desktop? I have the Firefox set up for 2- 1.007 icon there. Am I clear here ?
salbwil
grandms
16 years ago
Yes, any time you install a newer version of ANYTHING you will probably want to delete the older version setups. No reason to keep them around unless you think you might like to go back to an older version.
salbwil
Original Author
16 years ago
Thankyou,
salbwil
jerry_nj
16 years ago
I resisted IE7 for some time, but finally relented. I use it only for MS Update and for those few sites that require it, there are still a few out there. Otherwise I use my default browser Firefox.

As for removing the old versions, it seems to me that the updates of Firefox have always "overwritten" the previous version...and the desktop is updated too. If you have an Icon pointing to something that has been removed, by all means, delete it, as was well put by grandms.

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