Internet Explorer maps web content into one of five security zones. After the Local Machine Zone, the Local Intranet Zone is probably the most misunderstood of the Zones, and is a common source of confusion and compatibility glitches. Mapping into the Local Intranet Zone For the Trusted and Restricted...

Last week, Andy Zeigler announced the introduction of Enhanced Protected Mode (EPM) over on the IEBlog. In today’s post, I’d like to provide further technical details about EPM to help security researchers, IT professionals, enthusiasts, and developers better understand how this feature works...

Tuesday’s Update for Internet Explorer updates the IE9 Help > About dialog’s version number to v9.0.2. The update includes a number of security and functionality fixes; many of these fixes are described in the More Information section of KB2559049 . One fix enables the IE9 Download Manager...

Note: I mentioned this problem before ( Troubleshooting Login Cookies #3 ) but it was buried in a long post and this is an issue that lots of folks inside Microsoft hit, so I’m pulling it out into its own post. The Problem From time to time, various users have complained to the IE team that...

Internet Explorer offers an extremely rich set of options for controlling cookies . The default settings are fairly well-balanced, but some users may want to introduce more restrictive or specialized controls. To configure cookie settings in IE, click Tools > Internet Options . Click the Privacy...

Back in May of last year , I discussed changes we made in Internet Explorer 8 to make the browser’s session handling behavior more predictable. Specifically, we introduced a “New Session” item on the File menu—this menu item explicitly creates a new browser session which doesn’t share session information...

Web browsers use domain names for a variety of purposes, but how they’re used is much more complicated than most developers realize. In this post, I’ll attempt to cover the most important aspects of this topic. Definitions When talking about “domains” the terminology alone...

Over on the Microsoft Answers forum , some folks have reported that Internet Explorer doesn’t remember their login details. This is a tricky problem to troubleshoot because there are a number of different problems which get lumped together under this description, and there are a number of different...

Over the five years I’ve worked on Internet Explorer, I’ve probably seen more questions from the community about HTTP cookies than on any other topic. Cookies are an integral component of most websites in use today, and hence problems or unexpected behaviors with cookies tend to get a lot...