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# NASA ditches IE in favor of Firefox
- URL: https://www.chrismessina.me/blog/nasa-ditches-ie-in-favor-of-firefox/
- Published: 2005-12-04T22:17:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-25T03:44:45.000Z
- Author: Chris Messina
- Tags: Asides, Mozilla, Open source

According to Dan Turner "NASA has given up entirely on Internet Explorer. Now every time you go to a page using IE, you get up to three prompts telling you how risky it is to run scripts. The official line is that the newest IE vulnerability was the proverbial straw, and [now NASA's standard browser is Firefox.](http://blog.tcg.com/tcg/2005/12/nasa%5Fditches%5Fie.html?ref=chrismessina.me)"