RSSMicrosoft Puts to Rest IE for Mac
By Nate Mook | Published December 19, 2005, 1:40 PM
Web developers now have one less browser to worry about, at least officially. Microsoft announced that as of December 31, Internet Explorer 5 for Mac will no longer be supported, and downloads of the browser would end on January 31, 2006. Microsoft ceased development of IE for Mac back in June 2003.
"In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates," the company said. Microsoft encourages users to upgrade to more recent Web browsers, such as Apple's Safari.
From MS viewpoint-- this seems to me like leaving your butt exposed: Mac on Intel could take off-- or maybe not, but that's not the point. Another potential danger: linux being ported to the new cell processor... danger lurks everywhere....
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IE for Mac has never been a big interest of Microspud. With three better and more viable broswers available for Mac (Safari, FireFox and Camino) must persons that I know who own Macs dont even have IE installed.
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Who needs MS anyway???
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"Who needs MS anyway???"
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Those who don't want to use another operating system or perhaps those of us who happen to like MS.
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People who arnt idiots like you.
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I started reading this article in IE5 for Mac OS9x, but Betanews's ads crashed it as it usually does, so here I am in OSX using Firefox. Therefore I can't get too sentimental, except to say that IE for Mac OS 8-9x was a great piece of Mac software developed by an entirely separate part of the MS empire. It had the first sidebar, and possibly one of the most elegant ever, and it was a very clean and reliable piece of code. Rest in peace.
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"and it was a very clean and reliable piece of code."
Except when it crashed on Betanews ads?
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Was is not is. They stopped adding features in 2003, so...
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I'm sorry...what was that in reference to?
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CSS2, flash plugin support, RSS feeds, etc. Any number of *new* things could have crashed it.
Flash used to murder Netscape 4 for me.
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Most mac users realy woldnt care. is this realy a big deal.
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One thing IE for Mac had that I wish they would put in the Windows version: a download manager.
Every other browser has one, and MS proved they recognized the need for one in the Mac version, yet even IE7 doesn't have one.
Are they afraid of another lawsuit over copying someone's "download manager" idea?
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Even a simple status-bar (right-click menu) manager/history would be nice.
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I look at Firebox's DM, and I think," what's the big deal?" The only thing it does is show one window for all my downloads, but it doesn't save me any effort. Is it really that hard to or save that much time to click "save" then "OK"?
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If you are downloading several files simultaneously from the same FTP site, yes.
A download manager allows you to configure a lot of options for default download actions. In FF, I have it set to automatically save all files with certain extensions to one directory. I like that functionality.
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...or to have a window you can use to quickly navigate to a downloaded file?
I cannot count the number of times a user has told me "I don't remember where I saved it."
Not a problem when you can just open the download window, right-click and select "Open Containing Folder".
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Firefox really needs an "Open Folder" option. Also, I'd prefer if my downloads were tabbed rather than in a list.
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Firefox does have that option -- right click, open containing folder.
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Yeah...if he'd only read one comment further...
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Is the Resume feature still broken in FF?
Opera has the only in-built DL manager that's any good. None are very good compared to the standalone DL managers, though.
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They should copy Opera's download manager, I recon :)
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That would be nice.
...for Opera lol.
But yeah, I wouldn't mind seeing something like Opera's download manager tacked onto IE.
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Hmm...there must be some trick to it, because it isn't working.
Also...no tab view. :P
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Microsoft has a really nice download manager integrated into MSDN. I wouldn't be surprised if it was bolted on to IE 7.
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Isn't working....
On the off chance you are serious, and have 1.5..
Hit Ctrl-J. That'll bring up the download window. Right click on one of the downloads and oyu'll get a menu. One of the options will allow you to open the containing folder for that download.
NOTE: This will work *only* for downloads you *SAVED*. It will not work for downloads you opened or ran from the page.
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I hope you're right.
As it stands now though, the IE7 beta has no download manager. =(
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Ahh, k, so I have to wait for the download to finish first then? No opening the folder and waiting for it all to auto-cleanup?
Guess I'll keep using the "find folder -> Go up one level -> Right-click and open folder -> Go back and save" method.
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