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No IE in Tiger

firefoxWell, imagine that!  You end-of-life a program on the Mac and BOOM, Apple stops including it with the release of their newest OS.  According to readers of Accelerate Your Macintosh, who received their copies of Tiger early, there is no Internet Explorer included in the installation.

My take:  thank you, Apple! I don't have much use for a browser that U.S.-CERT considers a risk.

There's also unconfirmed rumblings that both Stuffit Expander and Acrobat Reader are missing from Tiger as well.  Can anybody confirm?

ps—I've included a subtle subliminal message in this post. Can you spot it?! 

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peter

I used scrapbook, and would like 2 keep using it. The save as in safari doesn't organise as nicely.

April 30 2005 at 11:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tyk

Why WOULD Apple include IE? Microsoft threw a hissy over Safari and stopped developing it, didn't they?

April 28 2005 at 11:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Did Tiger fix Sherlock?

April 28 2005 at 7:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

One question: IE, naturally, has the ability to log into sites that require a certain Microsoft flavor of authentication. (IIS's NTLM authentication, I think.) FireFox recently gained this ability. Can Safari do this now? I need it for some sites on my company's intranet.

April 28 2005 at 3:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Swan

Hey C.K., BOOM and you don't need anything else to open .zip and .sit file! BOMArchiveHelper is the utility that create the .zip file natively since panther, could it be the one who will now take over the .sit files as well? And could it be your subtlety? I take a chance.

April 28 2005 at 9:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
iBob

BOOM eh? is spotlights searching that fast for you ^_^?

April 28 2005 at 8:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mike

Not to be the devil's advocate, but IE's Scrapbook feature was awesome, what else accomplishes the same thing as easily? I actually really liked it most cuz the windows version of IE didn't have it. On a somewhat related note, would someone please explain to me why the @#$# the windows version of IE can't fit a @#$# webpage on 1 page width when you print? Is that sooo hard? Stupid windows.

April 28 2005 at 12:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Douglass

> And honestly I have had a ibook for about 6 months > now and I've never loaded IE, and wouldn't see why > anyone would. My only reason for keeping it around is printing. IE's print preview allows for resizing text and selecting which elements, if any, will be included in the print/PDF: Date, URL, Title, or Background Images. If/when Safari includes those features, IE will be gone.

April 27 2005 at 11:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

"Thank you Apple!"

April 27 2005 at 10:21 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Shane

I don't have Tiger yet, but I heard that it has native support for tar and gzip files, handling them the same way it handles zip files. I iterate the font question. Can anyone confirm the presence of Arial, Verdana, Georgia, and Trebuchut MS on Tiger?

April 27 2005 at 9:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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