Posted February 20, 20223 yr I have noticed recently that with Internet Explorer 8 installed on Windows 7, the Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 downloads do not load. Instead, it freezes and I have to restart the program. Is this a known issue? It says on the download page that the minimum is Internet Explorer 8.
February 20, 20223 yr Thanks for notifying. As I'm working on the MS Edge version of the downloader, MSIE 8 issues will no longer be fixed.
February 21, 20223 yr Author On 2/20/2022 at 10:02 AM, Jan Krohn said: Thanks for notifying. As I'm working on the MS Edge version of the downloader, MSIE 8 issues will no longer be fixed. Thank you. I think you should update your website though saying it is for IE 9 and later. Another thing that I found out is that the program works on Windows Vista. Is it supposed to work for Vista or did you add support?
February 21, 20223 yr I first need to verify that the downloader no longer works on MSIE8 on a Win 7 vanilla system. It could also be an issue with your installation. If it turns out to be a general problem, I'll change the website. I know that the downloader works on Vista. I've not advertised it since I don't have the capacity to support it.
February 22, 20223 yr Author 23 hours ago, Jan Krohn said: I first need to verify that the downloader no longer works on MSIE8 on a Win 7 vanilla system. It could also be an issue with your installation. If it turns out to be a general problem, I'll change the website. I know that the downloader works on Vista. I've not advertised it since I don't have the capacity to support it. I will quickly install a Windows 7 SP1 Vanilla VM with IE8. I will get back to you soon.
February 22, 20223 yr Thanks! Looks like it's broken indeed. Did you apply all available updates for Win 7 and MSIE8?
February 22, 20223 yr Author 5 minutes ago, Jan Krohn said: Thanks! Looks like it's broken indeed. Did you apply all available updates for Win 7 and MSIE8? Well, it is the vanilla version. If I updated it to EOS, it would install IE11 as well, so I kept it vanilla. I just enabled TLS 1.1 and 1.2 in Internet Options. Other than that, no changes at all. Edited February 22, 20223 yr by HitchhikerFan
February 23, 20223 yr Author 23 hours ago, Jan Krohn said: I'll give it another try on the MSIE8 developer VM from MS. Great! I hope to see your findings soon.
April 3, 20222 yr I have great difficulties connecting that particular VM to the web, so I couldn't perform the required test to solve this question. My time is better spent on working on the Edge version instead.
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