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
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