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posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday October 19 2016, @11:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the took-long-enough dept.

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/


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:57PM

    by Arik (4543) on Wednesday October 19 2016, @02:57PM (#416157) Journal
    Not just Lynx but also Links, W3M, and Arachne are free from javascript entirely. In addition, most browsers that do include the misfeature still include a way to disable it. I asked google how many browsers lack javascript and was told "At least 1 in 10 people who browse the internet have a browser that either can't handle JavaScript, or has JavaScript disabled."

    So yeah, you can't rely on javascript and have that work in any browser. That's bullshit on its face. The only thing that works in any browser is HTML.

    You know, a webpage. The thing they're refusing to offer here.
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