Facebook Chat and IE 6
Image via WikipediaOk so much fanfare and much ado about the latest little thing to happen with the Facebook development people-Facebook Chat.(See Damien Mulley's post about it here) Well thats just great. Now I have to deal with several chat programes such as MSN, Google Chat and now Facebook IM. Bah! However there is one slight sigh of relief I have about Facebook chat-It will not work on HEA computers who have IE 6 installed on them, which the vast majority of UCD's computers appear to have. Happy Days in one way; Means I might actually get some work done on College computers.
SO if this is the case then with regards the serious Security flaws etc and it is being used in HEA institutions still; How vulnerable are HEA institutions when it continues to use IE 6? IE 6 was pretty much obsolete the moment IE 7 was released in October 2006. It is now May 2008 and IE6 is still in use in this particular institution. I wonder how many more are the same?
Regardless, I have just recently discovered that I can use Firefox via my USB key, using Portable Apps, I will have solved my problem of not being able to use Facebook Chat in IE6 before it has made any impact on my Addiction for Internet usage! :-). Doesn't solve the problem of Internet security within IE6 though in UCD. Works great though for keeping those pesky students off social networking sites. :-)
I am curious though, if Facebook chat is only developed for IE7 or Firefox or Safari or Flock, why not for IE6. Perhaps it can be summed up in a neat little sentence about IE6 and how shite it was/is Security Wise.
SO if this is the case then with regards the serious Security flaws etc and it is being used in HEA institutions still; How vulnerable are HEA institutions when it continues to use IE 6? IE 6 was pretty much obsolete the moment IE 7 was released in October 2006. It is now May 2008 and IE6 is still in use in this particular institution. I wonder how many more are the same?Regardless, I have just recently discovered that I can use Firefox via my USB key, using Portable Apps, I will have solved my problem of not being able to use Facebook Chat in IE6 before it has made any impact on my Addiction for Internet usage! :-). Doesn't solve the problem of Internet security within IE6 though in UCD. Works great though for keeping those pesky students off social networking sites. :-)
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