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Why is Mozilla Trying to Memic Internet Explorer?

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With Every Update to Mozilla Firefox You Seem To Make It More Like Internet Explorer That DOES NOT WORK TO START WITH and the more time that passes you are now along with Google Chrome trying to memic IE.

In that Chrome has Load Unsafe Script when on a https site and that site is showing items from outside their https IE calls it Mixed Content. YOU Mozilla Calls it Disable Protection On This Site.

GIVE ME A BREAK FOLKS you & chrome are making my tech support job more difficult.

With Every Update to Mozilla Firefox You Seem To Make It More Like Internet Explorer That DOES NOT WORK TO START WITH and the more time that passes you are now along with Google Chrome trying to memic IE. In that Chrome has Load Unsafe Script when on a https site and that site is showing items from outside their https IE calls it Mixed Content. YOU Mozilla Calls it Disable Protection On This Site. GIVE ME A BREAK FOLKS you & chrome are making my tech support job more difficult.

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Hi MrDaveIT007, sorry about the unrelated reply!

I'm not sure I understand your concern. You are supporting users that need to use a site with mixed active content? If it's your site, the solution would seem pretty straightforward, which is to avoid mixed active content. Not possible?

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Firefox Version 14.01 was the last GOOD most perfect version of Mozilla Firefox. With each new update of Firefox it is starting to work more like Internet Explorer and this just WILL NOT WORK. Geez The whole purpose of Firefox and Chrome was to GET AWAY from Internet Explorer wasn't it ?????????

Now Firefox and Chrome are starting to act more like IE. Enough Said.

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It sounds as though you don't have a support question, you just need to vent your frustration with changes in Firefox. Another way to do that is to use

Help > Submit Feedback

But if you are looking for workarounds or fixes, please be a little more specific on what you need addressed.

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