Stop Using Internet Explorer • Hacker News Board

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by Klonoar » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 8:54 AM UTC

makeupsomething wrote: post #30

reustle wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shinsei bank in Japan requires IE (not edge) to use online banking. Macs aren't supported.

This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.

Most JP banks I’ve used work fine with any browser - I use my UFJ account regularly in Safari, etc.

Shinsei is just a crap bank, and IIRC Mizuho can be a PITA depending on what you’re trying to do.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by iCarrot » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 8:56 AM UTC

makeupsomething wrote: post #30

reustle wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shinsei bank in Japan requires IE (not edge) to use online banking. Macs aren't supported.

This seems to be the case for most banks in Japan. Also a lot of government services. Last year I ended up posting some documents to immigration because I could not get their online form to work.

I remember, for immigration process, having to use IE to download a PDF form and install Adobe Reader to open it. Strangely enough, it also had to be opened on a desktop machine, laptops are NG.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by anon9001 » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 8:57 AM UTC

fowl2 wrote: post #36

wjnc wrote: post #33

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My company uses SharePoint and Chrome. What are we missing? As a light user I've not yet missed a thing.

great big list of stuff that only fully works in IE here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/install/browser-...

Wow, that's a lot of core features. And it sort of makes sense because it's all in ActiveX, and ActiveX is not supported by Edge.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/emie-...

So an ActiveX control written in 1996 can run in Windows 10 Enterprise today via IE11. Neat... I guess.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by calgoo » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:02 AM UTC

wyqydsyq wrote: post #7

denkmoon wrote: post #5

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone still using IE isn't going to be persuaded away from it by a fancy blog post.

Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser

I had to use it today to connect to some old activeX iLo console for a server. Our internal HR module also only works with IE.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by pixelcort » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:03 AM UTC

reustle wrote: post #18

hathawsh wrote: post #8

Sigh... some services still require IE. https://www.frbservices.org/fedline-solutions/service-setup/... Not even Edge is acceptable. Then they throw in Java applets to broaden the attack surface.

Shinsei bank in Japan requires IE (not edge) to use online banking. Macs aren't supported.

I am able to load Shinsei in Chrome earlier this year, was this a recent change? Do you mean banking or another service?

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:11 AM UTC

tapland wrote: post #34

PikachuEXE wrote: post #24

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Vivaldi, Palemoon, Brave If you don't like any Chromium browser then Palemoon

Opera has been a great Chromium experience for me. I see many recommending Brave. What are the benefits of it over for example Opera?

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Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by classified » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:12 AM UTC

wyqydsyq wrote: post #7

denkmoon wrote: post #5

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone still using IE isn't going to be persuaded away from it by a fancy blog post.

Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser

You really have no idea what you're talking about.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by wastedhours » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC

dpark wrote: post #14

fragsworth wrote: post #3

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It reads like a hit piece to get people to switch away from Edge in case they think it's the same thing as IE. Everyone still calls it "IE", even though they're referring to Edge.

> Everyone still calls it "IE", even though they're referring to Edge. Citation? Is this actually a thing? Honestly I don’t believe you, mostly because your scenario involves people actually using Edge in sufficient volume that “everyone calls it IE” is supposed to be a meaningful thing.

My anecdata, everyone who I know who uses Edge (2 people, my parents on their Windows 10 machines) still call it Internet Explorer. They're tech savvy people too, but built up a habit with their new laptops. Hardly statistically significant I know though.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by alkonaut » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:25 AM UTC

wyqydsyq wrote: post #7

denkmoon wrote: post #5

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that anyone still using IE isn't going to be persuaded away from it by a fancy blog post.

Gonna take a wild guess that anyone reading HN probably hasn't used IE in the last decade aside from the purpose of downloading another browser

Guess again. It's not by choice, though.

Re: Stop Using Internet Explorer

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Post by baud147258 » Wed, Sep 25, 2019, 9:30 AM UTC

The product we're selling is doing smartcards issuances via the browser, using an ActiveX app, so the user has to use IE. We've asked multiple time for the budget to do the change to a modern browser, but the POs has refused each time.