So you want security with that Browser?

I was reading me email. One of the many email lists I’m on had a posting for UX Mag, http://www.uxmag.com/. Seems like a very interesting site. On this site’s home page is a block about 26% of the mag’s readers use IE. Curious I clicked it. Reading the page I came across piece of content that mentions IE add-ons for the current beta IE7 http://www.ieaddons.com/default.aspx?cid=home&scid=0. Thinking this is something like Fire Fox extensions I decided to investigate further.

What I find really strange is the main menu of this site. The site list four main categories of add-ons. The first one being ‘Security’. To me this is funny. Though not as funny as Microsoft publishing a book a few years back on programming for security. I mean can they just give it up and admit they haven’t a clue about how to make their application secure. And is it too much to ask that the new IE7 come already loaded with the various security add-ons you fins on the site? Why even give people the option. Seems like they are just asking for trouble.

Then again I don’t care because I’ve switched to MAC and IE7 is not being delivered to that platform.

About Paul Menard

Mis-placed Texas Geek now living on North Carolina. Lover of all things coding especially WordPress, Node.js, Objective-C and Swift. Love to work on interesting projects and come away with some new knowledge. Trying to keep my head on while I try to staying abreast of all the latest technologies. Lover of books and cats.