Because the WebBrowser Control (WebOC) can be used to display a wide range of content (HTML, Office Documents, PDFs, the local file-system, etc) it is often integrated into applications as a somewhat generic object hosting surface. For Windows 7, a small...

A Windows 7 user of Fiddler encountered an interesting error this morning, and it reminded me of an interesting HTTPS compatibility problem we found in the Windows Vista timeframe. The user is trying to visit https://www.atsenergo.ru with Fiddler running...

Recently, I received a query from the Windows Mobile team-- they had observed that visiting https://gmail.com triggers a certificate name mismatch error on IEMobile, but doesn’t seem to trigger any error on Windows 7 when using the desktop versions of...

Internet Explorer 7 introduced Protected Mode, a feature which helps ensure that the browser and its add-ons run with a minimal set of permissions. Code running inside the “Low Rights” process doesn’t have permission to write to your user-profile’s folders...