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"Brian Tschiegg" (WritingInCars) 09/03/2013 at 08:49 • Filed to: Oppo Tech Suppport

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Is there anyway that I can use a frame for IE7 without downloading a program? I would like to venture over to the FP, but it does not load correctly on IE7 anymore, but I'm on a government computer which means I can't download any programs. Any ideas?

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 08:54

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maybe try looking for a browser compatibility tester website.

IE7??? I hope you dont do anything national security related, lol.

Brian Tschiegg > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 09/03/2013 at 08:57

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Actually, that's the answer you get when you ask why we haven't upgraded yet. They say that this is the browser that they're most comfortable with security wise. I think they just don't want to let us enjoy Chrome or at least IE9.

Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 09:01

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lol, the IT guy here cannot stand that I use Chrome.

CalzoneGolem > Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs 09/03/2013 at 09:05

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We have a intranet site and the recommended browser for it is firefox.

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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 09:29

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Man, that animation thingy shows a guy putting his coaster in his cupholder all wrong.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 09:42

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I remember the help desk at my old work trying to tell me I can only use IE per company policy, I thought that was adorable and told them if they could figure out how to install it on Ubuntu I'd use it. Hint: I'm a Unix/Linux systems admin.

Nibbles > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 09:44

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Seriously?

Fuckin' SERIOUSLY?

They trust a browser that has been out for ages, contains many known security flaws, is not compatible with 60% of the webbernets today, and is slow as shit?

Damn. I mean, damn. I hope your IT guys grow out of it soon. Latest research concludes that any version below 9.0 is quite unsafe as Microsoft seriously just doesn't give a shit about software that outdated. The latest exploits (88% of which are Java-based and IE7 doesn't support anything over Java 6 IIRC) showed that IE10 and 9 were under 10% vulnerability risk and IE8 was near just under 70% - that's with all patches and security updates. Imagine what risk IE7 would be if they even cared to test it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 09/03/2013 at 09:56

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Best solution: running IE 2 in some kind of Wine abomination.

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 09/03/2013 at 10:03

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Don't even joke about shit like that, the thought just gave me a shiver up my spine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. 09/03/2013 at 10:07

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Come on, hacking Java into IE2 on Linux would be hilarious. Alternately, you could use reverse-engineered/horrible hacked IE for Mac, because it's self-contained and designed for something vaguely Unix-ey.

The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 14:20

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At my old old job I was able to install Firefox onto my desktop. I think? Not exactly sure, but by downloading it and installing it to the desktop instead of program files or wherever stuff normally goes, I was able to get around the whole "no you can't install anything" rule. I'm not super tech knowledgeable so maybe I didn't explain it right.

Brian Tschiegg > The Opponaut formerly known as MattP123 09/03/2013 at 14:23

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I don't want to try installing anything since it's strictly forbidden and any little thing you do wrong here is a BFD. I try to avoid my boss as much as possible.

The Stampi > Brian Tschiegg 09/03/2013 at 20:39

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You may have found a solution already, but if not you can try installing google Chrome on a flash drive and using that. I did that at my work for a long time to avoid using outdated IE. The only problem is when they rolled out a new security suite, flashdrives were forced to use password authentication to write or read any files. So that pretty much ground the browser to a halt.

JasonStern911 > Brian Tschiegg 09/04/2013 at 01:17

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without installing something - no. good idea for an HTML canvas render site if you were motivated, though.

YelloEye > Brian Tschiegg 09/07/2013 at 10:34

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Have thumb drive, will travel.
http://portableapps.com
I use chrome at school with this, everything is stored on the thumb drive, even cache files. Even keeps your saved passwords a secret by requiring a login to google when you use a new computer to recall saved passwords.