Growing frustrations because daily websites that I visit don't work on Surface

[MSurfaceWA]

I second J515OP, you really can't screw anything up badly by "messing with" the whitelist. It's text editing a file in notepad, and all you are doing is adding a url, its very easy and makes the browser a lot more functional. Check out this link, it explains it very clearly and easily -

[HACK] Flash on Any Website in IE10 Metro Browser [WIN 8 & WIN RT] - xda-developers

Good luck!

 

[asifsid]

Disabling "ActiveX Filtering" from desktop mode should fix both cases. I had the same issue and finally figured out that it was ActiveX filtering that was causing it.