{"id":2601,"date":"2017-11-27T07:32:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2018-02-15T06:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T14:31:40","slug":"why-you-need-to-stop-using-internet-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-you-need-to-stop-using-internet-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you need to stop using Internet Explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer is the web browser that Microsoft included with the Windows operating system through Windows 8.1. Beginning with Windows 10, Microsoft Edge is the new browser that&#8217;s included with the operating system and is continually being optimized with performance, feature and security updates. That leaves Internet Explorer 11 &#8211; released in late-2013 &#8211; as the last major version of Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n<p>With other browsers being continually updated &#8211; such as Edge version 41, Firefox version 57 and Chrome version 62 (as of November 2017) , some websites have stopped supporting the use of Internet Explorer. One of those websites is <a href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/verizon\/update-browser-sln4556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yahoo<\/a> &#8211; which includes the popular Yahoo web portal, Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Finance.<\/p>\n<p>An advantage of using a newer browser such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\/browser\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome<\/a> includes faster web browsing, improved security and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.chromium.org\/2017\/11\/expanding-user-protections-on-web.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">upcoming features<\/a> that will help stop fake warning messages that are often caused by webpage redirects and misleading advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>If you need help switching away from Internet Explorer and transferring your Favorites and settings to a new web browser, please <a href=\"http:\/\/ctreno.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-you-need-to-stop-using-internet-explorer\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"WP-PrintIcon\" src=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-print\/images\/printer_famfamfam.gif\" alt=\"Print This Article\" title=\"Print This Article\" style=\"border: 0px;\" \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/why-you-need-to-stop-using-internet-explorer\/print\/\" title=\"Print This Article\" rel=\"nofollow\">Print This Article<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Explorer is the web browser that Microsoft included with the Windows operating system through Windows 8.1. Beginning with Windows 10, Microsoft Edge is the new browser that&#8217;s included with the operating system and is continually being optimized with performance, feature and security updates. That leaves Internet Explorer 11 &#8211; released in late-2013 &#8211; as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing-tips","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computertechsreno.com\/tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}