Posts by Paul Coddington

Windows 10 feedback: 'Microsoft, please do a deal with Google to use its browser'

Re: [IE] is still as slow as a fart in a frying pan.”

It should move quite fast if the heat is on - doesn't the speed of reactions double every 10 degrees, or something like that?

Re: Expensive advice

Exactly - nothing should ever start full screen on a desktop, ever. It is one of those unwritten rules that is frequently and thoughtlessly broken.

Chrome not quite there yet

People asking for Chrome have forgotten that IE has features that Chrome doesn't. For example, extra features useful for Intranet applications and colour management. (Yes, Chrome cannot display color images with the correct colors - and, of course, avoiding putting in this critical feature helps win the performance benchmarks). Even so, I am not seeing Chrome perform faster than IE on my desktop - in fact, it chokes stone dead when there is disk IO.

eBay slammed for daft post-hack password swap advice

eBay password reset form is defective

The password reset form that eBay currently uses does not allow cut and paste of passwords from a password manager, discouraging the use of complex, long and cryptic passwords.

It also mistakes non-alpha characters as "whitespace", limiting you to letters and numbers.

So, if you change your password, you may be forced to choose a less secure one than you had before.

To top it off, you can't change your email address to one that has your name in it (that must be good for discouraging fraudsters) and you can no longer link to PayPal (I suspect because PayPal has moved all non-US customers to country-specific sites and eBay is hardcoded to the US one).

These problems have been apparent for years, but eBay has no interest in fixing them.

Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer – advice from US, UK, EU

Is this news?

So, if you disable the security features in Microsoft software, it is, *gasp*, insecure! Who would have thought?