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Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:53 PM

Using Meddler to Simulate Web Traffic

As mentioned back in July , IE8’s new lookahead downloader has a number of bugs which cause it to issue incorrect speculative download requests. The “BASE Bug” caused the speculative downloader to only respect the <BASE> element for the first speculatively
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Monday, October 12, 2009 12:01 PM

Capturing Crash Dumps for Analysis

Sometimes, folks report crashes to the IE team that we are unable to reproduce internally. That’s usually because, as mentioned often, most crashes are caused by buggy browser add-ons. In some cases, however, crashes occur even when running with browser
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:08 PM

Good News: Microsoft Security Essentials Released

Microsoft’s free new anti-virus / anti-malware realtime scanner is now available as a free download . Installing MSE, a traditional signature-based scanner, alongside IE8’s URL Reputation-based SmartScreen Filter yields comprehensive protection to help
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Friday, October 02, 2009 1:11 AM

New Tool: Compare IE Security Settings

“IE Zone Comparer” was designed to provide additional visibility into URLMon's security zone settings. Pick any two collections of security zone settings, and IE Zone Comparer displays the values of those settings, highlighting any differences between
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009 9:16 PM

Microsoft Doloto Performance Optimization Tool

Ben Livshits and Emre Kiciman of Microsoft Research have released the Doloto performance-optimization tool . This cool tool enables web developers to optimize page-load time by ensuring that pages only pull in the JavaScript functions they need. Mentioned
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