>>>>>>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
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>>>>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.
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>Yes, but a lot of governments have/had sites that were originally developed in IE's "heyday" and which only work best (or at all) with IE.
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>Coincidentally, last Friday I visited my municipal web site. The function I needed to do would not work with IE, I ended up using Edge in that case (FireFox on my machine is locked down too hard for most government sites).
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>Maybe 2019 is the "death of IE" for government work ;)

IE bit the dust here long ago.
Edge is pretty good- good graphics- but some sites don't like it.
So far, Chrome seems to handle the most sites best.
The browser madness is reminiscent of the desktop chaos before Windows 95 came along.
Trivia question:
In what year was Windows 95 published?