Also, at the German language site “Deskmodder.de” for date March 06, 2015, site operator posted a clean and accurate free “freak zip” file, based on McCann’s, which once downloaded imports easily into registry. Again, both of these features got my IE 11 for Windows 7 going from “fail” to “pass”, just like Firefox does without edits.

Of course, I backed up and replaced and tested again to ensure “fail” between tests of the two methods described above. This comment is intended for those who know their way around registry editing; should any other type of user wish to try, do first at least make a backup copy of your registry or make a restore point before attempting. It may indeed generally be better to await an IE patch, as no matter how you get IE protected against FREAK, you get the same losses of some sites’ facilities just like in FF/Chrome; many sites “require” IE just because they have weak SSL/TLS and if you harden IE like FF/Chrome, to some sites it will be as “useless” on some pages as other browsers. Cheers!