>>>>>Have any of you tried to download tax form .pdfs from the IRS.gov web site? The search and selection works fine but I get no .pdf.
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>>>>What link are you trying?
>>>https://apps.irs.gov/app/picklist/list/formsPublications.html and https://www.irs.gov/forms-instructions
>>>
>>>Just tried using Firefox and everything worked fine. Tried again with IE - no go.
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>>Huh. Figures - IE seems to be not as good as other browsers these days.
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>Really? Did anything change?
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>AFAIR, it was _always_ worse than any other browser.

Hmmmm,

in IE4 and IE5 (and soon after IE6 came out) times I thought then-current IE was much better than Netscape or other browsers.
Cannot point to the exact point in time IE became wart of browser world...