IE6 warnings for active content

Tim

When I go to my website ( www.loudmouthtim.com ) and go to the home page, I get a yellow warning bar across the top of the screen saying "To help protect your security, Internet Explorer has restricted this file from showing active content that could access your computer. Click here for options".

Well, it's real nice that IE6 is looking out for me like that, but I don't want these annoying warnings. How can I get rid of them?

mas0n

Best solutions I could think of, in order:

1. Stop using IE6. Seriously.
2. Add the site to your list of trusted sites
3. Tools > Options > Advanced > Allow active content in files to run on My Computer (If this actually alleviates the problem your IE is borked)

I navigated all around the site on two different machines using IE7 and received no such prompt.

Linc

mas0n wrote:

1. Stop using IE6. Seriously.

This.

Kwitko

mas0n wrote:

1. Stop using IE6. Seriously.

Keebler wrote:

This.

This seconded.

Thrax

mas0n wrote:

Best solutions I could think of, in order:

Stop using IE6. Seriously.

Keebler wrote:

This.

Kwitko wrote:

This seconded.

This thirded.

jared

Yes, that is IE6.

Tim

IE6 SP1 works great for me. Why is it that I don't have most of the problems that I read about other people having? I think some people are too picky sometimes.

I tried IE7 briefly, didn't like it, switched back.

Used Firefox once or twice, wasn't enough to switch me off IE6 SP1.

primesuspect

Tim wrote:

IE6 SP1 works great for me.

no it doesn't

It is no longer supported anywhere, by anyone. Upgrade to IE7. Why on earth wouldn't you? Why are you so stubborn? What are you afraid of?

Linc

Using IE6 is like driving with flat tires. Yes, you can do it. No, it's not safe.

jared

Well I'd be more concerned that many websites don't render right since IE's engine is really old.

I mean IE7/Opera/Safari/Firefox they are all up to (most) standards compliance. Since IE6 is abandoned and not supported its only going to get worse

GnomeWizardd

Chrome! But if not atleast for Firefox

NiGHTS

You come here for suggestions, then never take any - why should we bother?

Tim

It's my rather chronic hard-headedness. But I do read and consider all points of view, at least to some extent.

Leonardo

It's my rather chronic hard-headedness.

If you can admit it, you can conquer it. I'm verging on obsessive-compulsive. When I forget to remind myself about it, that's when I get in trouble.

Tim

I've got a real "if it works don't change it" attitude, I've had that for many many years. In many different ways. People, the placement of things in a house / apartment, the way things should be, etc.

I did download Firefox 3 last night, just to give it a chance. I've used it some today.

primesuspect

Right, I can totally understand that. However, the fact remains: IE6 doesn't work. The web has moved on, therefore by your own logic, since IE6 doesn't work any more, you need to change it.

mas0n

The problem TIm, is that IE6 does not work. We can all respect your opinion on the usability or aesthetics of one application over another and if you don't mind that pages are not displaying as intended, that's fine. But IE6 is NOT a secure browser, plain and simple.

EDIT: Oh, hey prime.

Leonardo

I've got a real "if it works don't change it" attitude...

With me it's tweak, modify, upgrade/update it until it fails!

...but always keep a full system backup! :bigggrin:

Thrax

If you're really that finicky about IE, you can always use a skin to make Firefox look exactly like IE. You'll have tabs (better than the resource-gobbling "Open in new window..."), but everything else will be ol' faithful.

Snarkasm

You can even make Firefox render using IE's engine if you use the IE Tab extension. All you do is click a little icon in the corner and it renders just like IE.

jared

Yeah, just search on Firefox's website. There is more than one IE skin.

articlegenesis

A warning in Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) like: “Displaying of active contents, which can access the computer, has been limited because of safety reasons…”, but you *know* that the content is safe—maybe because you created it yourself—yet you can’t view it.
Solution:
Change your IE6 options:

1. In IE6, go to Tools > Internet Options.
2. Select the Advanced tab.
3. Go to the Security section.
4. Select the Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer check box.
5. Select the Allow active content to run in files on My Computer check box.
6. Click OK to save your changes.

You should only need to do this once.

Tim

I've done that, the boxes are checked. And I STILL get the annoying warnings.:banghead:

I'll try to get an IE6 kit for Firefox. If I can use Firefox but make everything look and work like IE6, that would be okay, I guess.

Snarkasm

:banghead: indeed.

Kwitko

Change is bad. Resist change.