Since Securnia cracked the camels back I've been playing with different things Firefox has to offer. First of all, the major problem is rolling this out in the Enterprise through group policy and Sarah was kind enough to point me to a Firefox MSI repository. So far so good, until I hit the Microsoft Partner site – not very Firefox friendly I'm afraid, but there are two good things that came out of it. Number one, its the only IE-needy side (outside of our corporate internal SharePoint/CRM/GP sites) and it sent me off searching in the Firefox plugin land where I found IE View extension. Thats what the picture below is all about, you just right click on the page that doesn't render properly and select "View This Page In IE". There is even an IE Tab which makes it easier for people that don't like to right click – it adds an icon next to the address bar that opens the page up in a new tab using Internet Explorer as a rendering engine. Reduces desktop clutter! And it can be pre-configured so you can add the sites that should always render in IE. This is simply amazing. Now back on the Internet Explorer side, Microsoft has published an advisory regarding the severity of the exploit published months ago. The statement? "Microsoft encourages users to exercise caution when they open links in e-mail. For more information about Safe Browsing".. so they are basically preaching abstinence. That worked out great for the religious freaks (hi Jen) I'm sure it will have similar consequences for Microsoft unless they straighten this out fairly quickly or they'll end up getting (what happens when abstinence fails) by Firefox. Come on guys, IE 7 "beta" ain't the answer we're looking for here.

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