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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:56 AM

Understanding the Protected Mode Elevation Dialog

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
Posted by EricLaw | 4 Comments
Saturday, October 10, 2009 4:51 PM

Understanding DEP/NX

Despite being one of the crucial security features of modern browsers, Data Execution Prevention / No Execute (DEP/NX) is not well understood by most users, even technical experts without a security background. In this post, I’ll try to provide some insight
Posted by EricLaw | 4 Comments
Thursday, October 08, 2009 3:19 AM

The User-Agent String: Use and Abuse

When I first joined the IE team five years ago, I became responsible for the User-Agent string. While I’ve owned significantly more “important” features over the years, on a byte-for-byte basis, few have proved as complicated as the “simple” UA string.
Posted by EricLaw | 12 Comments
Sunday, September 13, 2009 12:49 AM

My Favorite IE Add-on: Ralph Hare’s Mouse Gestures

Unfortunately, I spend a lot of time dealing with problems users encounter when using Internet Explorer. As a result, when I write about add-ons, I’m usually talking about misbehaving code that is wrecking the browser. However, it’s not all doom-and-gloom
Posted by EricLaw | 0 Comments
Friday, August 21, 2009 11:50 PM

My browser is acting funny…

As browser users go, I’m pretty savvy. I’ve been on the IE team for nearly half a decade, and I’ve been writing browser extensions for twice as long. I read networking source code for entertainment, I spend my free time writing a web debugger , and I
Posted by EricLaw | 23 Comments
Monday, July 20, 2009 9:10 PM

Unshackling IE8 Performance

In general, IE8 is a significantly faster browser than prior versions. We made a number of major investments throughout the browser’s code to help ensure that IE users will have a great real-world experience on the web. However, it is definitely the case
Posted by EricLaw | 28 Comments
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:29 PM

The Privacy Impact of Add-ons: New APIs for IE8

By default, when starting a new session using IE8's InPrivate Browsing feature, toolbars and Browser Helper Objects are disabled. This is done to help protect the user's privacy: many toolbars and extensions maintain their own navigation/search/etc history
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