[LUG] NASA Ditches IE in Favor of Firefox

[Kiggundu Mukasa]

http://blog.tcg.com/tcg/2005/12/nasa_ditches_ie.html A little birdie told me today that NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now, if you are an employee of NASA, every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and now NASA's standard internal browser is Firefox... ****************                   ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa                # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD.                   # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda              Tel:     +256 77 972255          +256 71 221141 Fax:     +256 31 262122 *****************************************************************

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