EVE General Discussion

I want back the ingame Browser!!!

its a mess to ALT-Tab around the screen!!!

- Eve online

- Remove Stuff
- Nurf the game
- Sell SP/ISK to make profit
- FTP (for getting more kills to boost up marketing and so old fappers have something to do in this game like gate camping everywhere)
- Make it "Casual" all for the greater good

Nope CCP will continue this patch. And fingers cross the are not staying at this rampage patch!

I agree with the OP. And for those who say the IGB allowed your computer to be susceptible to malicious code, I say get a better security program for your computer.

I use to play Eve in full windowed mode and due to CCP removing the IGB, I now have to play the game in windowed mode so I can access my out of game Internet Browser. Don't particularly like having my computer work harder by having my browser open to access Eve related info needed to play this game.

When the IGB was active in-game, I used it extensively to reference Eve-Survival and Evelopedia for information. All links to Evelopedia opened in the IGB so any danger of contracting malicious code was negligible. Along with removing the IGB, Evelopedia was another bad removal decision by CCP.



DMC

Well, you can actually add EvE as a non-Steam game and use the Steam overlay which includes a fully functional browser.

But they banned Casino's, so no reason to have IGB anymore

It is not safe. The wise decision of CCP to remove it.

Seems a lot of people keep saying that and in my 8+ years of playing this game I've never heard of anyone contracting a virus or having a security breach on their computers due to the IGB.

I think CCP removed it for the same reason they removed the in-game jukebox and for the same reason they removed the Evelopedia and for the same reason they're removing these forums.

It's all about downsizing their server's expenditures.


DMC

I have, there used to be a certain class of Jita spammer (probably still is for all I know) that would spam links to malicious websites. There were never very many of them and they tended to get perma-banned pretty quickly, but they definitely existed.

Stuff like the IGB, Jukebox, and Evelopedia were removed not because of serve expense but because of the cost in dev time. All of these things suck fairly large amounts of dev time to keep curated and working relative to their benefit to the community. The Jukebox and IGB are both client side, they cost zero server time. The Evelopedia doesn't cost nearly as much in server resources as you might think, being a static website, it was just a mess for CCP to keep up to date and curated.

Oh and as for the idea that you can just "get a better security program" just no, that's not how any of this works. The whole point of a vulnerability is that it gets someone around your firewall and your anti-virus, and if the attacker is remotely clever about it they can then disable or hobble them so whatever they've done won't be detected. Assuming they've even done something, rather than just running some malicious code in the IGB without actually installing anything permanent. It can just sit there and scrape passwords or whatever and nothing will show up on your next virus scan.

The idea that something as old and held together with duct tape as the IGB could have its security concerns removed just by running AV software is ridiculous.

#NoPoors

Oh so i will be able to right click on dotlan and set destination on this second monitor?