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ctkhn • yesterday at 2:22 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

An earlier company I worked at had this same issue with Internet Explorer. It was after IE had been deprecated by microsoft as a browser but our IT department still had it as a downloadable application. Most of my team's on-call issues were from internal users using IE to access our site, even after we added an IE compatible popup that would tell them NOT to use IE.


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j45 • yesterday at 3:39 PM

Chrome, or Firefox are third party browsers to the operating system.

The internet explorer/edge issues were due to a web browser that was built into the operating system, and owned by the operating system company (Microsoft in this case).

There was a popular trend for a while that IE was the windows feature that let you download a different browser.

Apple had a similar run with Safari and from what I recall had to change.