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Internet Explorer 8 Compatibility Issues


Dave-H

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1 hour ago, Dave-H said:

Hmm, yes I think I'm onto a loser here I'm afraid! :(
Thanks for the suggestion Stephen but I've decided to uninstall Google Chrome Frame.
I think the chances of it restoring full functionality to IE8 are pretty poor now, and having two installations of Chrome on my machine has caused other complications, like their determination to share the same profile!
It's not the end of the world if some sites don't work in IE8 any more as there are still plenty of alternatives of course.
I would like to fix the Windows Help and Support Center window malfunctioning more, but as I guess it's also IE8 in a different skin that's not going to now be easy or maybe even possible either. It is strange that pages that actually still work in IE8 will not now open in the Help and Support Center.
I will have to do some more investigation on that!
Thanks again, these things are always worth trying, if only for fun!
Cheers, Dave.
:)
 

I suspect that this is actually not limited to IE 8, but old versions of IE in general.

On Windows 7 Enterprise with IE 9.0.46, I did a quick search for IE 9 compatibility mode: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2536204#!%2Fen-us

The link loads correctly in Chrome, but not in IE 9. I think that Microsoft has begun blocking all old browsers, in conjunction with its decision to drop old browser support on 1/12/16.

I should note that the CT State University System has decided to stick with IE 9 instead of 11- I assume IE 11 loads these sites without a problem since that is Microsoft's latest version. The system also added Chrome to installed programs last fall, so it's possible they kept IE 9.0 around for compatibility reasons.

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6 hours ago, heinoganda said:

 Meanwhile the website of the Microsoft Update Catalog also works with other Internet browsers.  :)
 

Wow! Well, it didn't, not too long ago, so that what you should really have said is:
Microsoft Update Catalog now also works with other Internet browsers, at long last! :yes:
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"display : block" is not a problem, it just means give the element its own line and allow it to stretch out across as much of the page as it wants (like a div).
"display : inline" is like a span or a (anchor).
"display : none" would be a problem as it means "hide and collapse the layout space as if it doesn't exist".
"visibility : hidden" would also be a problem as it means "hide but preserve layout space".

See: http://learnlayout.com/display.html

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On Saturday, October 15, 2016 at 2:30 PM, sdfox7 said:

I tried loading https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-media-player-details.aspx and it failed with IE 8.

However, changing "https" to "http" allowed the page to load in IE 8.

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OK, I just tried this page with Opera. It works; but if I disable TLS 1.2, it fails with "Unable to complete secure transaction."

That's probably why https: connections to microsoft.com fail with IE 8 too. IE 8 does not support TLS 1.2.

You can go to https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html with any browser to see what security protocols, encryption ciphers, etc. your browser supports.
 

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Looks like Microsoft enabled HTTP Strict Transport Security as well. That will cause some browsers to turn all http: requests into https: ones. Opera does this, for instance.

Oddly, I just tried https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-media-player-details.aspx with IE 8 and it worked! So I went back and tried with Opera again, and now it falls back to TLS 1.1 if I disable TLS 1.2. I swear it didn't do that yesterday!

 

BTW, make sure you have the latest IE 8 security fixes. Use the POSReady 9 registry hack if necessary.

 

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I had totally missed the 12.18 update to Opera. Thanks! Now I can use Opera 12 with those annoying Web sites that only support Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral key exchange. (They used to just give me the Unable to Complete Secure Transaction message and I had to go to another browser.)
 

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Glad you found it!
It was an update for security protocols, and the main thing it cured for me was that Opera 12.17 kept on suddenly shutting down all the time for no apparent reason, which was very annoying as you can imagine, and that was something to do with security issues, which were fixed in 12.18.
I'm not holding my breath for any other updates to Opera 12 though sadly!
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Well, me neither; sadly, so many web sites seem to flummox Opera 12 now. Facebook doesn't really work very well with it anymore. Have to use Firefox. But I still prefer Opera 12's interface to the new browser "look" that has somehow become the standard from Firefox to Chrome to Opera 15-36. And 12 still works fine with a lot of sites, including many forum/board sites like this one.

I'm glad to hear 12.18 stopped those random crashes. I haven't seen one in a while, but I used to get them a LOT on my Win 7 machine at home. (I always suspected they had something to do with Flash; they seemed to stop for me once I got to Flash 23.) But either way, I needed the 12.18 security updates because some https: sites just wouldn't connect to 12.17 any more.

Anyhow, I seem to have drifted off-topic. I hope Microsoft leaves their site where it will work with TLS 1.0 and 1.1. I just tested it, and the WMC link above even works with a browser as old as Firefox 3.5!

You really should use TLS 1.2 if your browser has it, but most of the time there's no reason to force it on folks using older browsers like IE 8.
 

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