IE7 and Search - To Default or Not Default?
October 20th, 2006 by pamela
Fresh from his little catastrophe with Internet Explorer 7 Danny Sullivan has produced a great article on how the IE7 search box works, how you can change it and how both Google and Yahoo’s toolbars operate within it.
As you probably know IE7 has an integrated search box powered by MSN Search which Google obviously isn’t happy about, particularly given that Microsoft is attempting to sneak upgrades through to users who have automatic updates installed, as discussed in the Browser Wars: Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox Updates See The Light yesterday.
It is possible to choose an alternative search engine to MSN, and Danny takes this opportunity to talk through this process. While competitors are nervous, it is entirely possible that people will do what people often do, taking the easy and comfortable option, open the browser and go straight to their usual search provider. Time will tell.
Internet Explorer 7 is being rolled out in updates to from November 1st through the Windows update system, and worrying a securioty flaw has bene found already. Well that didnt take long did it? Security site Secunia has noted a issue with the redirection of URLs with the “mhtml:” handler and could be used to gain access to documents served from another site.
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