Have you been totally annoyed by the new security warning in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8)?
“Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely?”
Well there are two problems. First is that you think the right answer is yes… but they are sneaky and you must say NO. Secondly with me is that I am using GMAIL for my email. I have forced it into using a secure connection (HTTPS://). Generally all of the images in HTML emails are linked to “non-secure” (HTTP://) sites. So for the brower that is a problem. Yes a possible security risk. So this is why IE8 is complaining. Yes someone could see you pulling down bigfatsaleoncomputers.jpg. Who cares!!! Generally speaking you don’t care that the images aren’t coming to you securely and honestly I don’t see any reason to be concerned about it.
So…
I finally got sick of the warning message today and did some googling. Thanks to this post at the HTTPWATCH blog I have fixed my problem.
You can read the whole article… I really only read the first half. Bottomline here is how to make it go away.
Here is the fix:
- Going to Tools->Internet Options->Security
- Select the ‘Security’ tab
- Click the ‘Custom Level’ button (*Under the Internet Zone which is the default)
- In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change “Display mixed content” to Enable
Remember any changes like this you make will require you to close completely out of the browser and re-open it. Also known as “restarting the browser”. I tested this and it works!
I hope this helps someone else. It has been driving me crazy and keeping me for seeing my newegg deals daily.
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