diff --git a/wp-admin/css/ie.css b/wp-admin/css/ie.css
index dd7deaaebc..968dd3cc94 100644
--- a/wp-admin/css/ie.css
+++ b/wp-admin/css/ie.css
@@ -56,3 +56,8 @@ form#template div {
 	overflow: visible;
 	padding: 1px 5px;
 }
+
+/* without this dashboard widgets appear in one column for some screen widths */
+div#dashboard-widgets {
+	padding-right: 1px;
+}
diff --git a/wp-admin/update.php b/wp-admin/update.php
index f10b5219ff..b33eac2cdb 100644
--- a/wp-admin/update.php
+++ b/wp-admin/update.php
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ if ( !current_user_can('edit_plugins') )
                 wp_die('<p>'.__('You do not have sufficient permissions to update plugins for this blog.').'</p>');
 
 function request_filesystem_credentials($form_post, $type = '', $error = false) {
+	$req_cred = apply_filters('request_filesystem_credentials', '', $form_post, $type, $error);
+	if ( '' !== $req_cred )
+		return $req_cred;
+
 	if ( empty($type) )
 		$type = get_filesystem_method();