[clue-talk] From /. State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Crawford Rainwater
<crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.com> wrote:
> State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe
>
> "The State of Colorado's Office of Technology (OIT) has set up a work skills website. The problem is that the site says 'DO NOT use FIREFOX or other Browsers besides IE. It has been decided that Mozilla based, non-IE browsers pose a security risk.' (Original emphasis from site.) If the leading IT agency for the State is making these uneducated claims, should the people worry about their other decisions?"
>
> Upon viewing the site (in Firefox none the less) one will see the following:
>
>    Server Error in '/SKILLS' Application.
>
>    Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
>

[ rest of error report snipped]

Hmmm! I'm using Swiftfox  (latest Firefox compiled for my AMD
processor), and I find no such errors. I scrolled through all the
links, but declined to open any of the PDFs.

What version of Firefox are you running?



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Collins Richey
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