Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Just a quick heads up for those users and system administrators who are tired of accessing the Microsoft Update Catalog in Internet Explorer or using the workaround to use other browsers: the site is now working in any modern browser.
Simply point your web browser to the main address -- http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Home.aspx -- and the site should open just fine.
No more using Internet Explorer to download patches from the Update Catalog, or using the RSS feed workaround to download them using other browsers.
I have tested the site with Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Vivaldi, and it worked fine in all of them. Surprisingly though, it does not work in Microsoft Edge yet because there is still a script running on the page that checks for Edge and intercepts the connection.
Source: http://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/15/microsoft-update-catalog-works-with-any-browser-now/
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 19 2016, @01:22PM
You missed the "modern" qualifier. I have to wonder about people who still use that term in a positive light though. To me it means constant uneeded updates, menus moving around, websites not loading because they use new feature X, ads being inserted, and various telemetry sneaking in.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday October 19 2016, @04:52PM
I prefer HTML5 with native video element, canvas, and SVG. Evidently you prefer Flash?
I definitely prefer JavaScript 1.8.5 to earlier versions. That update added significant missing capability, specifically Object.keys and related functions. Should've been in the language much earlier.
UTF-8 is clearly superior to ASCII unless you're using a very old or embedded computer that hasn't the memory capacity for it.
The interfaces changes are improvements. Yes, I said it. Changing the bottom bar in Firefox to a popup for showing where a link leads was huge improvement. Before that, I was using an addon to make that bar autohide, which was vastly inferior as it forced Firefox to redraw the page each time the bar changed state. Options to turn off the menu bar and bookmarks bar were most welcome, and something I used to need addons to do. I don't like wasting real estate on window decorations and the like. One addon I added was Hide Tab Bar with One Tab. Still hunting for a window manager I like better, hate having a whole line's worth of screen space wasted for a titlebar. Yeah, sure Openbox has "undecorate", but I also like being able to drag windows around by the titlebar. Much better if the titlebar could be transparent or some such.
Granted, there are bad features such as ActiveX. Adding DRM to HTML would be a negative. Hope it never happens.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:20AM
What? Firefox had the option to hide the tab bar when only a single tab is open since it had tabs. I know for sure since I always had that option set before I got a 16:9 screen and tree style tabs.
Otherwise I wouldn't mind if removing the status bar had been an option. It sucks to have to install an extension for it (and then, other extensions no longer make good use of it, and stuff their icons all in the URL bar where they take space away from the URL bar items (and actually use more space, as icons in that bar are much larger).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:06PM
Not any more. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-hide-tab-strip-when-you-only-have-one-tab [mozilla.org]
> stuff their icons all in the URL bar
Can right click those icons and "move to menu". Be nicer if the menu was the default location, but this is tolerable.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:42PM
Ouch. Yet another interface devolvement.
Ah, nice, didn't know that. Thank you.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.