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Microsoft Update Catalog now Works with any Browser - gHacks Tech News

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

MrPlow writes:

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 maxwell demon on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:20AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:20AM (#416501) Journal

    One addon I added was Hide Tab Bar with One Tab.

    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).

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  • (Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:06PM

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:06PM (#416625) Journal

    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

      by maxwell demon (1608) on Thursday October 20 2016, @05:42PM (#416821) Journal

      Not any more.

      Ouch. Yet another interface devolvement.

      Can right click those icons and "move to menu".

      Ah, nice, didn't know that. Thank you.

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