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Some of the lower tier (but very common) LAN network hardware requires old versions of IE to function during firmware upgrades and configuration changes with no
by sengork 11y ago
Some of the lower tier (but very common) LAN network hardware requires old versions of IE to function during firmware upgrades and configuration changes with no CLI equivalent options.
In most cases the hardware vendors never address the browser compatibility issue (due to focus on new products) and only provide a warning sign upon login. Likewise the hardware isn't easy to replace in some environments.
This use case is completely absent from the web browsing traffic usage patterns on the internet which predominate in browser usage statistics.
- cletusw 11y agoUse the old, unsupported, insecure browser only during those upgrades and a modern browser for everyday use. The end-of-life-ed browsers will continue functioning, they just won't get updated. Might require use of a VM, but the cost of that added complexity is vastly inferior to what web developers worldwide spend supporting those old browsers.
- i386081 11y agoThat reminds me of the webinterface of my old router. If you looked at the badly written javascript source, you would see why it refused to work on anything other than internet explorer. They were even explicitly checking for it in the useragent!