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July 15th, 2012 - 08:06 pm ET by Henry | Report spam
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Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver 8.0.6001.18702

Thanks

Henry
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#1 Char Jackson
July 15th, 2012 - 09:23 pm ET | Report spam
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:

Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver 8.0.6001.18702



I'm guessing you have Compatibility mode enabled, allowing IE8 to
identify itself (via its User Agent string) to web sites as IE7.
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#2 Henry
July 15th, 2012 - 11:38 pm ET | Report spam
Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:


Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver 8.0.6001.18702




I'm guessing you have Compatibility mode enabled, allowing IE8 to
identify itself (via its User Agent string) to web sites as IE7.



You are exactly right. I unchecked Compatibility mode and I no longer get
the message from YouTube.

Thanks
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#3 Char Jackson
July 16th, 2012 - 12:58 am ET | Report spam
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:38:54 -0500, Henry wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:


Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver 8.0.6001.18702




I'm guessing you have Compatibility mode enabled, allowing IE8 to
identify itself (via its User Agent string) to web sites as IE7.



You are exactly right. I unchecked Compatibility mode and I no longer get
the message from YouTube.

Thanks



You're welcome. I would expect the message from youtube to be
harmless, but at least you know what's causing it now.
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#4 Tim Rude
July 16th, 2012 - 10:08 am ET | Report spam
"Char Jackson" wrote in message
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:38:54 -0500, Henry wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:


Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a
YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to
IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver
8.0.6001.18702




I'm guessing you have Compatibility mode enabled, allowing IE8 to
identify itself (via its User Agent string) to web sites as IE7.



You are exactly right. I unchecked Compatibility mode and I no longer get
the message from YouTube.

Thanks



You're welcome. I would expect the message from youtube to be
harmless, but at least you know what's causing it now.




This is part of Google's "Internet Explorer is crap, you should be running
Chrome" campaign.
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#5 micky
August 04th, 2012 - 10:59 pm ET | Report spam
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:08:07 -0500, "Tim Rude"
wrote:

"Char Jackson" wrote in message
news:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:38:54 -0500, Henry wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 19:06:15 -0500, Henry wrote:


Running WinXP Pro SP3 and IE8 with all of the updates. When I run a
YouTube
video, I get a message from them that says I should upgrade my IE7 to
IE8.

Does anyone know why this is happening? I'm running IE8 ver
8.0.6001.18702




I'm guessing you have Compatibility mode enabled, allowing IE8 to
identify itself (via its User Agent string) to web sites as IE7.



You are exactly right. I unchecked Compatibility mode and I no longer get
the message from YouTube.

Thanks



You're welcome. I would expect the message from youtube to be
harmless, but at least you know what's causing it now.




This is part of Google's "Internet Explorer is crap, you should be running
Chrome" campaign.



LOL. I tried Chrome and wondered where all the options and drop-down
menus were..
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