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emilsedgh on Oct 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Volkswagen Group is using IE6 as standard for ...

"For security reasons, the Volkswagen Group does not recommend other browsers like Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Netscape etc. as they show security gaps."

This probably means they have serious security holes which could be easily triggered by other browsers.

joelthelion on Oct 23, 2011 [–]

I think it simply means that this page was written more than five years ago.

troymc on Oct 23, 2011 | | [–]

Indeed. Aol stopped supporting Netscape (the browser) in 2008.

Ref: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200810/312/Netscape...

nantes on Oct 23, 2011 | | [–]

Not exactly conclusive, but <meta name="date" content="2009-10-20" /> in the source seems to indicate otherwise.

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