Neowin News Feed for: Ie6

IE6 finally drops below 4% in worldwide browser market share

John Callaham — Thu, 01 May 2014 14:12:31 +0000

The latest data from Net Applications for worldwide web browser market share shows that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 6 has finally dropped below the four percent mark. Read more...

Adblock Plus drops support for IE6 and IE7

John Callaham — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 20:03:47 +0000

AdBlock Plus has announced that it will no longer support Microsoft's older Internet Explorer 6 and 7 web browsers, citing their low market share and turning off the TLS 1.0 protocol by default in IE6 Read more...

Twitter ending Internet Explorer 6 & 7 TFW support

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:51:57 +0000

Twitter has announced they are ending support for Twitter for Websites in IE6 and IE7 on May 13th, meaning external Twitter widgets such as embedded tweets and follow buttons will stop working Read more...

China stifling efforts to push IE6 market share below 1%

Tim Schiesser — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:51:49 +0000

While the market share of Internet Explorer 6 remains low in many Western countries, China's huge share of 25.8% presents a thorn in the sides of Microsoft's effort to rid the word of the browser Read more...

IE11 to appear as Firefox to avoid legacy IE CSS

Max Slater-Robins — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:02:15 +0000

Microsoft have updated IE11 to include new a new user string in their IE11 browser update, as well a "Like Gecko" command which returns a version of the site that a Firefox user would see. Read more...

Microsoft releases full security update for IE6-8

John Callaham — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:00:12 +0000

As promised on Sunday, Microsoft has now released a new patch for Internet Explorer patch for IE6, 7 and 8 that closes a security exploit that was discovered a couple of weeks ago. Read more...

Security firm: We have bypassed Microsoft's IE6-8 "Fix it" patch

John Callaham — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:08:52 +0000

A security firm claims to have found a way to bypass Microsoft's "Fix It" Patch for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 which would allow the exploit that the patch closes to be used by hackers. Read more...

Microsoft releases "Fix-It" patch for IE6-8 exploit

John Callaham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:00:45 +0000

Microsoft has now released a "Fix It" patch for the exploit that was discovered last week in its Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 versions and is still working on a full update for those browsers. Read more...

Browsium Ion will help to get businesses off of IE6 forever

John Callaham — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 18:48:42 +0000

A new product from Browsium, called Browsism Ion, has been released. It's designed to get businesses to help make the transition from using IE6-based applications over to more modern web browsers. Read more...

Facebook to kill IE6 chat support on IE9 beta day

Brad Sams — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:29:41 +0000

Internet Explorer 6 has been a thorn in the side of developers for quite some time. The legacy browser has stuck around thanks to big business refusing to upgrade because of either legacy software issues... Read more...

IE6 market share drops 6%, IE8 still in top spot

Andrew Lyle — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:50:22 +0000

Over the last year, IE6 marketshare has fallen by 6% in the US, from 11.47% to 4.74%. Back in March, Neowin reported that a funeral was held for IE6 where Microsoft even sent flowers... Read more...

Google pulls IE 6 support for Google Reader

Brad Sams — Mon, 24 May 2010 23:13:04 +0000

The aging platform, IE 6, that some attribute to slower adoption of Internet standards has been dropped by Google Reader. While this is only a small step towards removing support for IE 6 across... Read more...

Google also cutting Gmail support for IE6

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:15:54 +0000

On January 30th, Neowin reported that Google would begin dropping support for Internet Explorer 6 due to its inability to handle modern-day web technologies. At that point, it was unclear which services were included in... Read more...

Microsoft confirms Internet Explorer vulnerability will be patched out of band

Tom Warren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 21:28:08 +0000

Microsoft has issued a statement confirming that it plans to release a patch for a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer which saw Google fall victim to some targeted and sophisticated attacks recently. George Stathakopoulos, Microsoft Security,... Read more...

Should you stop using Internet Explorer?

Tom Warren — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:39:08 +0000

Microsoft has had a torrid time over the past week as governments and customers question the security of the popular web browser, Internet Explorer. The issues began when Google went public that they were targeted in... Read more...

Microsoft explains why they can't pull the plug on IE 6

Kevin Weiner — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:04:11 +0000

Digg has prevented users on IE 6 from certain activities, Facebook has been telling users to upgrade, and YouTube is supposedly going to cut off IE 6 support altogether. Yet, Microsoft still hasn't pulled the... Read more...