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Article #622019Re: Has Microsoft commited suicide ...
From: Peter Flass
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:48
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 14:48
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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: > > hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com writes: > >> On Wednesday, April 25, 2018 at 4:53:29 AM UTC-4, David Wade wrote: >>> >>>> So have you installed Firefox or Chrome? More and more web sites >>>> don't work on ANY Microsoft browser you know. >>>> >>> >>> Examples? There are a few that won't work with Edge but not many... >> >> Well, Wikipedia won't work with my old browser. Why not? > > Huh. I can read Wikipedia pages with my "new" browser: FF 2.0.0.13. > But I get multiple pop-up windows reporting that login.wikimedia.org > and upload.wikimedia.org use an unsupported crypto protocol. No easy > way to determine what FF wants to fetch from these other servers -- > possibly images although I get at least some images if I enable it in > the browser. > [snip] The other day I tried to do something I have never done - retrieve an online coupon - and got a message to the effect that my browser isn't supported and I should upgrade to a newer browser. Well, I have an old iPhone, which I don't want to replace, and I can't upgrade what I have. People who design these websites need to build in a fallback for curmudgeons. I had a similar problem in a store trying to read reviews from a website. I think for some reason they want some enhanced security - maybe SSL - that I don't have. OK, fine, so I'll take my chances. Don't make me upgrade to access something on the supposedly "open" web. -- Pete
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