Just saw the pasted error text in message #1346602, and all of a sudden... why is it called "Windows Internet Explorer"? Is there a Mac and a Linux version? Hold it... let's see what the wikipedia has to say. There's a "Internet Explorer Macintosh Edition", but no "Internet Explorer Windows Edition", and sure enough no "Internet Explorer Linux Edition" nor "Linux Internet Explorer".

So, why put the word Windows in front? I can imagine at least three reasons (out of the necessary seven).

1) there are about twenty different internets, but there's only one "windows internet". This browser explores that one, ignoring the others.

2) anything compiled under any of the Windowses should be called Windows Something; the name isn't copyrighted anyway (can't do that with a generic term).

3) it never hurts to repeat the name of your flagship product, even at the point when nobody notices whether you did it or not.

4) there are about gazillion internet explorers, but only one is made for a Windows; the others were never published, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't all have distinctive names.

5)...