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On Windows 7, Visual Studio 2015 wanted Internet Explorer 10… here are the direct links to download it

Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/20

Boy, don’t you dislike how hard it is to find direct download links

Well, thanks to kenorb and jjlin (slightly edited):

Check: IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, IE10, IE11 Offline Installers Download Links – kenorb Mar 20 ’15 at 13:39 – http://www.itechtics.com/download-internet-explorer-all-versions/ – note this does not provide hashes.

jjlin:

Try these Microsoft offline installer links:

These may refuse to work if you already have IE 11 installed, though. If it is refused, try this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20043971/how-to-downgrade-from-internet-explorer-11-to-internet-explorer-10

And in case these links ever stop working and you must obtain a copy from a non-Microsoft source, here are the SHA-512 hashes for posterity:

  • 32-bit: d89ba3f9978be428ac05b182481198ab0f7b0c0651e4716e63cd0cf907d739cbc30f44ec9c444da683869473a548cd99e5c396467b2898f7c382b6345b3e70d2
  • 64-bit: f1752bb6517fe15071e5f7a4fee4b8680da1bdad1df7054ab22bab78fe0f46aee177787f60ea2cfc86a2db2b08429e2cba3cfdd20ba6a2ab69e091c7784dfdae

Source: internet explorer 10 – Does Microsoft still have a link to download IE10 for Windows 7? – Super User

–jeroen

Posted in .NET, Development, Internet Explorer, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio and tools, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »

One line browser notepad (via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga)

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/19

Smart, it works in any modern html5 capable browser:


data:text/html, <html contenteditable>

Be sure to look at the blog post and comments at Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad as they explain why this works, and how to extend it in a couple of really smart way.

–jeroen

via: Jose Jesus Perez Aguinaga : One line browser notepad.

Posted in Chrome, Development, Firefox, HTML, HTML5, Internet Explorer, Opera, Power User, Safari, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | 1 Comment »

13 Ways to Clear Your Browser’s Cache – wikiHow

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/06

Besides the cache empty instructions, these keyboard shortcut to get to the settings in various browsers are also really helpful:

  • Control+Shift+Delete on a PC, or
  • Shift+Command+Delete on a Mac.

–jeroen

via: 13 Ways to Clear Your Browser’s Cache – wikiHow.

Posted in Chrome, Chrome, Firefox, Google, Internet Explorer, Opera, Power User, Safari, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

Instantly save a web-page to the Wayback Machine (Internet Archive: www.archive.org)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/24

Saving a web page for posterity is really easy: just prepend http://liveweb.archive.org/ in front of the URL in your browser, then open the page.

The Wayback Machine (Internet Aarchive) wil instantly archive it.

See this great answer by Jeff Atwood quite a while ago:

One thing that the ineffable Jason Scott just pointed out to me on Twitter:

if you give the url of the page to http://liveweb.archive.org and wait five minutes, it will archive that page. How about that?

Also you can enter http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.website.com/page to have it happen without visiting the page.

So if you want to ensure that a popular soon-to-be or may-possibly-be deleted question gets archived by the Internet Archive, manually feed them to the URL above.

I suppose for already deleted questions, we could also undelete, wait 5 minutes, let it archive, then re-delete.

–jeroen

via: Building an archive of deleted questions – Meta Stack Overflow.

Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Opera Mobile, Pingback, Power User, Stackoverflow, Web Browsers | 1 Comment »

Why I dislike GoToWebinar by Citrix: 0 stars out of 5.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/31

Last week, I viewed to webinars. A smaller one Geek Fest – Automating the ForgeRock Platform Installation about Ansible installation of Unix machines, and the first 70% of the last day ofCodeRage 9 | Free Development Event by Embarcadero.

Both had a bad experience because of GoToWebinar has a really bad user experience.

  1.  When a GoToWebinar connection terminates, the GoToWebinar client closes. You loose everything in the Q&A log. You need to hope someone else saved the Q&A log so you can see the public questions, but the private comments you made are gone.
  2. It is impossible to install the Windows client when you are behind a McAfee Web Gateway that filters downloads and HTTPS traffic. After trying for about 15 minutes, we gave up and reverted back to a Mac over another connection. It meant we could not use the conference room and had to cram many people behind a small MacBook screen.
  3. The Mac OS X client does not allow you to resise the Q&A log, so even on a 4k display, you can see like 10 lines of Q&A.
  4. When there are many attendees, the refresh rate slows down from sub second to once per 5-10 seconds, this is really bad when watching demos of software: a big aim of webinars.

When terminating, the only thing GoToWebinar allows you to do is give feed back (too bad they don’t allow for detailed feed back). So I gave it 0 out of 5 stars.

–jeroen

PS: I could save the below Q&A logs. If you have other logs, please let me know so I can publish them. I’m especially interested in Have You Embraced Your Inner Software Plumber Yet? by David Schwartz – The Tool Wiz

These are the  CodeRage 9 – Object Pascal Sessions I could save the Q&A log of:

Posted in Appmethod, Chrome, Delphi, Delphi XE7, Development, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Power User, Software Development, Web Browsers | Tagged: | 3 Comments »

Speedup Youtube Playback: Watch Lectures In Half The Time with YouTube’s HTML5 Player

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/13

I wish I had kept an eye on it after it was announced (which was 3.5 years ago, but not very stable): The Youtube HTML5 viewer trial.

It has come a long way since thenFull screen it is still not as good as the official one, but the main attraction introduced since is: configurable playback speed!

Yes, you can choose playback at 25%, 50%, 100%, 150% or 200% of the original speed. Ideal for lectures or watching replays of conference sessions.

Quote from the life hacker post LifeHacker on this:

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opera, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.

Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/20

Summary:

  • Zero day vulnerability in mshtml.dll used by Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 and 9, and many other products.
  • Resolution: Deploy EMET or stop using IE and other products using mshtml.dll until Microsoft delivers a patch.

Earlier this week a zero-day vulnerability in the mshtml.dll was made public. This DLL is used by almost all Internet Explorer versions (6-9 are vulnerable) and many other software products (almost anything from Microsoft and a lot of 3rd party software that displays a web page on Windows).

While Microsoft is building a fix that is to be released very soon now (probably tomorrow, Friday September 21st 2010), the official resolutions are not to use the mshtml.dll at all (impractical for many people), or deploy EMET (impractical too as it requires administrative privileges).

If you can, switch to a browser that uses a different layout engine than mshtml.dll (for instance browsers based on WebKit will do).

These pages are good starting points for more information:

Particularly interesting posts:

–jeroen

Posted in Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments »

Extensions to force HTTPS in your browser

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/07/22

About 9 months ago I posted about HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation hoping someone would port the HTTPS Everywhere extension for Firefox to force HTTPS in other browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer et cetera.

In the mean time, I found out about HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security), which is supported by FireFox 4, and Chrome 12.

Also in the mean time I found about a few HTTPS enforcer extensions for other browsers.

For instance, there are two similar Google Chrome Extensions to HTTPS Everywhere:

Internet Explorer does not have such an extension.

Opera has the Security Enhancer extension.

Next to HTTPS Everywhere, there are the ForceHTTPS and NoScript extension for FireFox (NoScript also supports HSTS).
FireFox 4 supports HSTS out of the box.

So now you have a choice!

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

SEO guys taking over Google results: Search Filter and Stackoverflowizer Chrome extension

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/14

Over at least the last year, I keep adding more and more “site:domainname” clauses to my Google search queries because somehow content scrapers somehow rank higher in the Google results than the original content.

Some domainnames I often used because of good content:

  • stackoverflow.com
  • microsoft.com
  • wikipedia.org
  • apple.com
  • reference.com

Others too noticed the SEO guys are steadily taking over Google results: Jeff Atwood just wrote a great article on this topic (with an even greater list of comments), and there is even a Stackoverflowizer app redirecting back from the scrape sites back to the content!

The world upside down, but maybe this is some good news:
an opportunity for other search engines to fill the gap.
And it looks like they do, and Vivek Wadhwa wrote a nice article on those too.

There is an opportunity for browser extensions too, so here are some Google Chrome extensions:

Be prepared to fill your machines with some more memory as browser plugins do eat some.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Power User, Web Browsers | Leave a Comment »

HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/27

Currently this is FireFox-only.
I hope someone ports this to a Chrome extension and Internet Explorer plugin: HTTPS Everywhere | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

–jeroen

Posted in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, LifeHacker, Power User, Web Browsers | 1 Comment »