August 2013 Internet Explorer Updates
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS13-059 - Critical
This security update resolves eleven privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially-crafted Web page using Internet Explorer. An attacker who successfully exploited the most severe of these vulnerabilities could gain the same user rights as the current user. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows clients and Moderate for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10 on Windows servers. For more information, see the full bulletin.
Recommendation. Most customers have automatic updating enabled and will not need to take any action because this security update will be downloaded and installed automatically. Customers who have not enabled automatic updating need to check for updates and install this update manually. For information about specific configuration options in automatic updating, see Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 294871.
For administrators and enterprise installations, or end users who want to install this security update manually, Microsoft recommends that customers apply the update immediately using update management software, or by checking for updates using the Microsoft Update service.
— Wilson Guo, Program Manager, Internet Explorer
Comments
Anonymous
August 13, 2013
now IE10 Version is 10.0.8..Anonymous
August 13, 2013
Even if you use the latest stable version of IE, you're still subject to vulnerabilities from older versions! What?!Anonymous
August 13, 2013
Please release in full package . can you insert new option for add old tab browsing in new IE . Address bar and tab controls in next to are very discordant ! both are small for Pro works . thanks.Anonymous
August 13, 2013
@ant - ever since IE9 RC, there is an awesome option that appear when you do a right-click that says "Display tabs on seperate row".Anonymous
August 13, 2013
I installed IE11 but can not revert back to IE10.Anonymous
August 14, 2013
@Yannick in Desktop.Anonymous
August 15, 2013
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August 16, 2013
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August 16, 2013
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August 16, 2013
@pmbAustin, @Pam - Google's actions aside Microsoft embarked on making an HTML5 app for YouTube for Windows8 and gave up due to "technical challenges". Since the HTML5 version of YouTube works on my browser, on my desktop, that only means 1 thing. The Microsoft attempt to build an HTML5 YouTube app failed due to 1 of 2 reasons - take your pick. 1.) Microsoft couldn't get an HTML5 player working on their device because IE was incapable of handling HTML5 Video content/codecs 2.) Microsoft can't build a decent HTML5 app Either way you look at it it doesn't shine well on Microsoft. Google can't be blamed for this failing - their HTML5 app works just fine thanks.Anonymous
August 16, 2013
blogs.computerworld.com/.../why-google-blocking-windows-phones-youtube-app-word-fearAnonymous
August 18, 2013
Please read the link above and you will see that Google YouTube application on Android is not HTML5 neither is the one on the iPhone. The HTML5 version on you desktop is only the video and audio tags, which by the way IE 9,10, 11 have no trouble doing. Google wants the entire application in HTML5 not just the video and audio tags.Anonymous
August 18, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/html5 Would you look at that, IE9+ is supported. This information was really hard to look up too, took a whole 5 seconds. The question isn't really if they can make an html5 app, they obviously could, but if they made it in html5 then it would be harder to make and end up with less features than the iphone/android apps that aren't in html5.Anonymous
August 18, 2013
Show me HTML 5 youtube app built by google on android and ios.Anonymous
August 18, 2013
Google is actually blocking Windows Phones from accessing Youtube trough HTML5: wmpoweruser.com/youtube-now-adding-nomobile-flag-to-links-when-coming-from-windows-phone It is clear that Google sends different pages to Windows Phone users preventing them from accesssing the Mobile HTML5 version of the site that iPhone and android users are getting. Sickening behaviour from Google.Anonymous
August 18, 2013
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August 18, 2013
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August 18, 2013
Oh I am a complete idiot. I totally missed this article: wmpoweruser.com/youtube-now-adding-nomobile-flag-to-links-when-coming-from-windows-phone. It wasn't happening 3 months ago! Something was definitely changed on YouTube server-side. Vimeo and all other HTML5 video websites work just fine in Windows Phone (IE10 mobile) and even IE9 mobile on WP7!! Google with its outrageously spiteful fanboys lot need to grow up!Anonymous
August 19, 2013
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August 19, 2013
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August 19, 2013
IE is the worst browser ever made.Anonymous
August 19, 2013
Wanted to post this in the comments for the previous post but I saw comments are closed there so I'll post here. Can someone [MSFT] confirm this is not supposed to happen (it's a bug?) - I downloaded the IE11 – WIN8.1 VMWare Fusion virtual machine for Mac from here: www.modern.ie/.../virtualization-tools and installed Visual Studio Express 2012 to get the Windows Simulator (i.e. Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft SharedWindows Simulator11.0Microsoft.Windows.Simulator.exe) as I wanted to test the improved touch browsing in the IE 11 preview. Unfortunately, even if I choose the touch input method from the simulator toolbar on the right, the browser still seems to produce all mouse hover events and all hover menus, tooltips, etc. on websites work as if mouse input is available when I just move the touch target circle around without even clicking to emulate a touch. This means touch browsing can actually not be tested properly in the simulator. This was not the case last time I checked the simulator on Windows 8 and IE10. Can someone confirm this is some kind of bug and suggest a workaround? Thanks!Anonymous
August 20, 2013
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August 20, 2013
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August 20, 2013
Well this is frustrating. In Control Panel > Uninstall programs: Internet Explorer 11 isn't listed. (on windows 7) so I can't remove it from there. In the "Turn Windows features on or off" there is an Internet Explorer 11 checkbox I can uncheck... but doing so removes Internet Explorer completely from my PC (e.g. typing in Start > iexplore.exe == file not found!) So now I re-checked it to bring IE11 back... but how do I go back to IE10 or IE9? @pmbAustin WHY THE **** SHOULD I HAVE TO LOG IN TO USE A PUBLIC BLOG?! WHY THE **** SHOULD A BLOG REQUIRE ME TO SIGN IN TO ****ING WORK? WHY THE **** HASN'T MICROSOFT FIXED THE ISSUE?! WHY THE **** HASN'T COMMUNITY SERVER FIXED THE ISSUE?! WHY THE **** SINCE MICROSOFT KNOWS THIS ISSUE EXISTS (AS DOES pmbAustin) DO THEY NOT POST IN A MASSIVE BRIGHT BOLD MESSAGE AT THE TOP OF THE COMMENT FORM STATING THAT:
***** BEWARE THIS COMMENT FORM WILL LOSE YOUR POST IF YOU DO NOT LOG IN!!!! **** ***** WE ARE SORRY BUT WE HAVE YET TO FIGURE OUT WEB FORMS ****
Seriously this is like a 5+ year old bug! Microsoft knows about it, every frequent commenter on this blog knows about it!, this bug on the IE Blog has been blogged about on OTHER BLOGS (that's how well known it is!), Community Server knows about this bug! The solution to fix the bug has been posted ON THE BLOG by dozens of readers! @MICROSOFT @Wilson Guo [MSFT], @Michael Patten [MSFT], @PJ Hough [MSFT], @Sandeep Singhal [MSFT], @Rob Mauceri [MSFT], @Paula Chuchro [MSFT], @Ceri Gallacher [MSFT], @Dinesh Chandnani [MSFT], @Matt Gradwohl [MSFT], @Rajkumar Mohanram [MSFT], @Dean Hachamovitch [MSFT], @Kevin Miller [MSFT], @Jatinder Mann [MSFT] WHO THE **** has the FTP password for this site and WHY THE **** have they not fixed it already!?!? Somebody has to be responsible for this blog and that person needs to stand up and do something to fix it! This is the only blog I know of that just-plain-doesn't-and-never-has-worked!
Anonymous
August 20, 2013
Actually it's Sean something (or at least it was a few years ago.)Anonymous
August 20, 2013
@pmbAustin Did you ever get to the bottom of what was causing IE10 to spawn only one process and eventually stop rendering as the memory usage of that single process added up? I'm having the same issue with Windows 7/x64.Anonymous
August 21, 2013
@Microsoft Can we get info on how to uninstall the IE11 preview? Its a bit concerning when there isn't an obvious way to do it without re-installing Windows 7 from scratch. IMHO If you create an installer and don't have an uninstaller delivered with it you've failed software delivery 101.Anonymous
August 21, 2013
There are many video sites that don't work on My surface yet work on every other browser. e.g. this live leak video www.liveleak.com/viewAnonymous
August 21, 2013
@Jake - it should be under Programs and Features. You need to click "View installed updates".Anonymous
August 21, 2013
@Surface Woes, That is fixed in IE11 modern app, which you can get after 55 days from now (by Oct 17).Anonymous
August 21, 2013
In 3 seconds I found this article www.groovypost.com/.../uninstall-internet-explorer-11-revert-ie10-ie9-windows-7 on Bing.. Guess Bing is a way to go after all!Anonymous
August 21, 2013
@Chris: "@pmbAustin Did you ever get to the bottom of what was causing IE10 to spawn only one process and eventually stop rendering as the memory usage of that single process added up? I'm having the same issue with Windows 7/x64." No. It still happens. In fact, I saw the worst example just recently: One dozen tabs all loaded in a single process that was over 1.3 GB in size. It just seems like over time, some tabs "restart" silently, and when they restart, they reuse an existing iexplorer.exe process, until over time, they all end up in just a couple or even one. And when this happens, performance NOSEDIVES, it becomes very unresponsive, and most of the time (though not always), rendering stops... tabs will appear empty (they never redraw), common dialogs will not show icons, etc. This happens regularly. Like, once a week. I assume that people who aren't technical and who don't use TaskManager a lot just get frustrated and switch to another browser. I don't understand why something like this is persisting across versions. It's so easy (if time-consuming) to reproduce. It happens over time, any time I have multiple tabs open and leave them open for hours or days.Anonymous
August 23, 2013
@pmbAustin: I'm not sure either about the memory leak issue but I believe it may have something to do with how IE "suspends" tabs when not in issue, mentioned somewhere on another post. Correct me if I'm wrong, though.Anonymous
August 23, 2013
@"@Jake" (PS your @OP usernames are really annoying) yeah I Google it too and found that exact article. However if "Internet Explorer" doesn't show up in the list of installed programs (which is happening to a lot of users) then you are SOL and can not uninstall. What we would like is instructions from the software vendor (ie Microsoft) to uninstall.Anonymous
August 23, 2013
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August 23, 2013
thank for you cervicesAnonymous
August 25, 2013
Actually, it can as few as one tab. One RSS feed full of images. (eteknix is best example - even with few items shown)Anonymous
August 25, 2013
I think the latest update to IE11 broke the Chase Online banking site. I can no longer do, among other things, wireless transfers. I had to download Google Chrome to perform this action.Anonymous
August 25, 2013
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August 25, 2013
We are still waiting for someone from @Microsoft to step up and take action regarding fixing this blog comment form! How many years should we wait for a fix? Seriously!