IE7 data flush feature
p2p news / p2pnet: Bill and the Boyz are adding a feature to IE7 that’s certain to be popular with people who visit adult sites, for purely educational purposes, of course.
Surfers riding the cyberwaves on Firefox already have ‘Clear Private Data’ (right) which deletes browsing, saved information and passwords, cookies, cache and authenticated sessions and now IE7, ” will have a thorough flush feature that clears its history and all associated files stored after a Web site is accessed,” says PC World.
Quoting Uche Enuha, a program manager on the IE user experience team, IE 6 users have to spend time trying to expunge the information stored after a web site has been visited, says the story.
With IE7, they’ll be able to delete all of those at once, or individually choose which ones to wipe through ‘delete browsing history’.
And the feature, “goes deeper than a novice user would likely pursue,” PC World has Enuha saying.
“For example, deleting files from the temporary Internet files folder will also clean out attachments stored by the Outlook e-mail program in that folder.”
Also See:
PC World – Internet Explorer 7 Will Flush Its History, January 17, 2006
January 18th, 2006 at 3:31 am
It shouldn’t be so surprizing that anything “new” that Microsoft puts out won’t actually be “new”. They will be behind again by the time they offer their crap. They will have to embrace open source at some time or continue fruitlessly catch up to the technological wave the open sourcers are already riding.
January 18th, 2006 at 6:02 am
January 18th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Windows historically has not really erased data when the user tells it to. IE in particular, and other parts of windows have kept history and/or cache files deliberately concealed from the user, and when instructed would clear the visible caches but not the hidden ones.
The following is a relatively old page but it explains about this.
http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml
Maybe they’re changing this now? Somehow I doubt it.
Knowledgeable users who care about security, privacy and control have long since abandoned IE anyway. Still, the fact that Microsoft is now having to compete again, even a little, is ahopeful sign that its oppressive hold over the computer industry is finally crumbling.
– jen_eric999