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Any reason NOT to go from IE 5.5 to 6.0?

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Harvey

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I still run Win 98 SE on one machine because I need real DOS for a particular legacy app. I usually use Mozilla or NS 7.2, but as we all know, some sites only work or display correctly (if at all) with IE.

For those times I still need it, I've been running IE 5.5 with all updates because I've heard about too many security problems with IE 6 so I want to know if there are any advantages to IE 6 over IE 5.5 and if enough of the major bugs have been stomped to be worth the change.

TIA. 🙂
 
IE5x has lots of CSS rendering bugs.. you might encounter this with a (growing) number of websites 🙂 IE6 has much better CSS support compared to IE5, but still lags wayyyy behind Mozilla/Opera/etc
 
Thanks. Since Mozilla/NS are my main browsers, that's only a slight concern. The last time I checked (which was awhile ago), IE 5.5 was still considered more secure. I'm more interested in whether MS has dealt with this to the point where IE 6 is at least as secure as 5.5.
 
As far as Microsoft products are concerned I usually suggest using their latest versions with all of the patches in order to be as secure as possible.

edit: Also, I don?t know how truly secure you can consider 98 since Microsoft has stopped supporting it.
 
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