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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 97327" data-source="post: 1018687"><p>Long ago (XP-era) I used a heavily tweaked Interet Explorer for daily browsing (and Opera for downloads). IE could be prevented to download programs (and all risky file types). IE in default configuration had many risky features to facilitate corporate web-applications which could all be disabled to make it a safer browser. Also something I learned after purchasing Windows XP 64 bits on which browser containers did not work like Sandboxie, GesWall, DefenseWall, etc, so I had to improvise.</p><p></p><p>Why don't browser developers offer an easy safe mode in which risky features are disabled (e.g. many site permissions can be set to block/disable without any loss of functionality in Edge). Browsers nowadays offer profiles, so I have two profiles (one in which nearly everything is set to strict/block/disallow and one in default settings), but why don't the browsers themselves offer something similar (in stead of every security aware user discovering these hardened settings in a trial-and-error way).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 97327, post: 1018687"] Long ago (XP-era) I used a heavily tweaked Interet Explorer for daily browsing (and Opera for downloads). IE could be prevented to download programs (and all risky file types). IE in default configuration had many risky features to facilitate corporate web-applications which could all be disabled to make it a safer browser. Also something I learned after purchasing Windows XP 64 bits on which browser containers did not work like Sandboxie, GesWall, DefenseWall, etc, so I had to improvise. Why don't browser developers offer an easy safe mode in which risky features are disabled (e.g. many site permissions can be set to block/disable without any loss of functionality in Edge). Browsers nowadays offer profiles, so I have two profiles (one in which nearly everything is set to strict/block/disallow and one in default settings), but why don't the browsers themselves offer something similar (in stead of every security aware user discovering these hardened settings in a trial-and-error way). [/QUOTE]
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