kekyo / OuternetExplorer

An old-style web browser stub, comes from Internet Explorer was genocided on Windows.

Outernet Explorer

An old-style web browser stub, comes from Internet Explorer was genocided on Windows.

Download from: https://github.com/kekyo/OuternetExplorer/releases/download/1.0.0/oexplore.zip

• NOTE: Windows defender will report "Infected with a virus", but it doesn't contain any security risks. I feel this is a bug in Windows defender or something Microsoft has thought about this project... If you can't believe it, you can verify source code and/or build a binary yourself. It is an OSS project :)

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What's this?

A stub implementation for Internet Explorer ActiveX component (called MSHTML, ShDocVw, InternetExplorer.Application and like). It's simplest replacer for iexplore.exe.

The Internet Explorer will retire at June 15, 2022. We need to be prepared for that, this is one of the most innovative ideas.

Reference:

• The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge (Microsoft)
• Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer in 2022 (THE VERGE)

Target platforms

• Intel x86 32bit architecture Windows between Windows 11 and Windows NT 4.0 (maybe).
• You could run on 64bit Windows implicitly uses WOW64 compatibility layer.

Usage

• Double-click oexplore.exe on the Explorer.
• Or, invokes from command line:

C:\>oexplore.exe

You made it!

Options

Outernet Explorer could receive only target url like:

C:\>oexplore.exe https://google.com/

Unfortunately, the url will inspect inside of Internet Explorer component, and maybe shows up both IE AND Edge2...

License and limitation

• MIT
• This is kind of a joke. I'm hoping the code will work, please do not take it seriously :)