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> Le 30 avr. 2019 à 18:47, Frank <wijsmuller@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
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> Enjoy Chris ;-) : <
> https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-IT-Pro-Blog/The-perils-of-using-Internet-Explorer-as-your-default-browser/ba-p/331732
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> Op di 30 apr. 2019 om 18:04 schreef Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
>> Looking into this further, it appears that this is a problem with
>> most browsers, but not with IE.
>>
>> I wouldn't have noticed this at all if it hadn't been for the
>> fonts.googleapis.com problem when using EarthLink webmail. Whenever you
>> refresh the list or open an email, they interrogate that site a half dozen
>> times or more, which significantly slows things down, even on this 54M wifi
>> connection.
>>
>> To go a bit further, I shut of Firefox and I'm now using IE11. By
>> watching my CurrPorts TCP monitor, I've seen that Firefox was bypassing
>> just about everything and making multiple connections to the wifi adapter,
>> whereas IE11 is making just one through netbios-ns.
>>
>> That is a significant security issue. I've made extensive use of the
>> hosts file since I first learned about it back in the days of Win95, and
>> seeing that the newer non-MS browsers are bypassing it makes me very
>> uncomfortable. I can only what other security features they are bypassing.
>>
>>>
>>> Firefox is my default browser and I have no such issues.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> For months now I have been experiencing a substantial slowing when
>>>> reading webmail, due entirely to fonts.googleapis.com. This only
>> happens
>>>> with Firefox, not IE11. I just now learned that newer versions of
>> Firefox
>>>> ignore the hosts file, which answers a lot of other questions. If you're
>>>> not familiar with that, the hosts file is your first and foremost
>> firewall
>>>> when using a Microsoft OS. That answers the question as to why intruders
>>>> like cloudfront and 1e100 come screaming through even though I have them
>>>> in the hosts file.
>>>>
>>>> Searching online, Mozilla does not seem to be the least bit
>> concerned
>>>> with the issue. That being the case, Firefox has become a liability and
>> I
>>>> may find myself going back to IE11 solely on the basis of the security
>>>> issue.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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