DavesnothereChange is NOT Necessarily Progress Premium Member join:2009-06-15 Canada |
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Re: Yea or nay on IE 8? Tea, Earl Grey, Hot.
Make It So !
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Browser Layout Annoyances :
IE8 lets you put the Refresh and Stop buttons back where they belong, but IE7 does not.
There is also a registry patch available for moving the Menu bar back to above the address line, which is listed for IE7 but also works with IE8.
I use IE8 on XP SP3 and on Vista SP2 machines, and use FireFox Ver 12/13/14 but not 15, as 15 seems to have deleted the option to put the Tab Bar below the other bars at the top area.
Recent Opera is interesting too, partially as it also still can be installed onto Win2K, where, IIRC, all other recent browsers cannot. |
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Mozilla removed it from the normal menus in 15 but you can restore the tabs on the bottom.
Go to about:config and copy and paste this in the search: browser.tabs.OnTop and Toggle it to False.
After a bit the option itself reappears under View - Toolbars or right clicking anywhere in the toolbar area. |
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to DownTheShore
I woke up to one of those shining right through my window (the glass kind) into my eyes. |
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therube join:2004-11-11 Randallstown, MD |
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> should update to IE 8 on my system?
Yes.
Not sure if you've said, but XP? And if XP, you can't run IE 9.
And if you have IE 8, it should be kept current - whether you use it (directly) or not. (There are plenty of uses of "IE", from Windows & third-party apps, without opening IE directly.)
Whether you have (just_about_any_program_you_wish_to_name), it should be kept current - whether you use it or not. (Well just about any program that is Net facing & regularly patched for exploits.) |
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vaxvmsferroequine fan Premium Member join:2005-03-01 Polar Park
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vaxvms
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said by therube: it should be kept current Why is that? New&Improved does not necessarily mean better |
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therube join:2004-11-11 Randallstown, MD
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therube
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2012-Sep-30 10:44 am
> New&Improved does not necessarily mean better
In the case of IE, new (other then a new version entirely) is almost never "better". IOW they are not adding new, or improving features of IE.
But security exploits are being fixed. And that is why you want to keep current. |
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DavesnothereChange is NOT Necessarily Progress Premium Member join:2009-06-15 Canada |
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said by kickass69:Mozilla removed it from the normal menus in 15 but you can restore the tabs on the bottom.
Go to about:config and copy and paste this in the search: browser.tabs.OnTop and Toggle it to False.
After a bit the option itself reappears under View - Toolbars or right clicking anywhere in the toolbar area. Reappears as in ver 12/13/14 ? I wish the F### that Mozilla would leave well enough alone !!! I still am grumpy at them for removing ' Bookmark All Tabs as a Group' from the Bookmark Menu, back around version 4.0 or so. - Is there a fix for THAT in about:config ? |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA |
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Isn't the "Big O" in Paradigm City? I think Dorothy is hot! |
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Name Game Premium Member join:2002-07-07 Grand Rapids, MI 1 edit |
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said by Davesnothere:I wish the F### that Mozilla would leave well enough alone !!!
I still am grumpy at them for removing 'Bookmark All Tabs as a Group' from the Bookmark Menu, back around version 4.0 or so. - Is there a fix for THAT in about:config ? Bookmark All Tabs as a Group You might be able to get it back with this add-on offered by a student in Taiwan Why was Enable Bookmark All Tabs created? After Firefox 4 ,Because less people are using the Bookmark All Tabs. So it has been hidden.But I love to use Bookmark All Tabswith panorama (Tab Groups), so I think it should be enable by add-on.So I download the Firefox source code, and found the way to enable the Bookmark All Tabs. And try to make an Add-On. Thanks kennyluck's teach, I will try to make more Add-On What's next for Enable Bookmark All Tabs Still thinking » addons.mozilla.org/en-us ··· ll-tabs/» howto.cnet.com/8301-1131 ··· at-once/ |
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DavesnothereChange is NOT Necessarily Progress Premium Member join:2009-06-15 Canada |
said by Name Game:Bookmark All Tabs as a Group
You might be able to get it back with this add-on offered by a student in Taiwan.... Thanks - will investigate. It turns out though, that if you go [ALT]+[B] rather than mousing to make the menu appear, that the FireFox Bookmark Menu looks different, and only then it INCLUDES that option. I was hoping for a way to make it universally included. This was ONE of the few IE functionalities with which M$ did NOT fuck, in the revisions from version 7+ forward. However, M$ tried to remove the menues entirely. |
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said by Davesnothere:I wish the F### that Mozilla would leave well enough alone !!! They removed "Close Window" (but "New Window" remains) from the File menu too. No idea why. Fortunately the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-W) still works. BTW I think I'm out of ammo |
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DavesnothereChange is NOT Necessarily Progress Premium Member join:2009-06-15 Canada 1 edit |
Another FFFU (FireFox FuckUp) was removing the 'New Tab' from the Right-Click Tab Menu, somewhere between versions 4.0 and 12.0 (aka ver 4.8). - I actually USED that and MISS it ! Can I get it back ? (in the about:config jungle) BTW, those holes you posted were not from bullets - They happened when Dolly Parton bumped kinda hard into a wall. |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double wide Premium Member join:2002-10-12 Montreal, QC |
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IIRC, you can roll back to IE7. You would need to remove all KB's that installed IE8 (or) Add | Remove Programs > IE7 would be re-instated.
In the day when IE7 was released, many didn't like over IE6.
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Internet Explorer is like inviting the plague into your system. |
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NormanSI gave her time to steal my mind away MVM join:2001-02-14 San Jose, CA TP-Link TD-8616 Asus RT-AC66U B1 Netgear FR114P
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said by brianiscool:Internet Explorer is like inviting the plague into your system. Probably true for versions older than IE6, but ... |
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siljalineI'm lovin' that double wide Premium Member join:2002-10-12 Montreal, QC
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said by brianiscool:Internet Explorer is like inviting the plague into your system. Yawn |
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Dustyn Premium Member join:2003-02-26 Ontario, CAN ·Carry Telecom ·TekSavvy Cable Asus GT-AX11000 Technicolor TC4400
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said by brianiscool:Internet Explorer is like inviting the plague into your system. Don't be jealous. Think 19579823 would like to have this neon sign? |
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said by jaykaykay:I've looked for anything I can find on IE 8 but cannot find anything specific to whether I should update to IE 8 on my system? No. I don't need any lecture on using a different browser...just if updating to this specific one is wise. Is it secure, or at least as much as any MS browser can be on an updated XP and secured as much as possible, system? Any advice on this one will be appreciated. This is one of those times that I am very hesitant on fixing something that "ain't broke". 1. You don't say what version of IE you have now. 2. You DO IMHO need a lecture about using IE. Krebs-On-Security has a great explanation of why: In a Zero-Day World, Its Active Attacks that Matter Krebs on Security »krebsonsecurity.com/2012 ··· -matter/The recent zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer caused many (present company included) to urge Internet users to consider surfing the Web with a different browser until Microsoft issued a patch. Microsoft did so last month, but not before experts who ought to have known better began downplaying such advice, pointing out that other browser makers have more vulnerabilities and just as much exposure to zero-day flaws.
This post examines hard data that shows why such reasoning is more emotional than factual. Unlike Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users, IE users were exposed to active attacks against unpatched, critical vulnerabilities for months at a time over the past year and a half. |
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"This post examines hard data that shows why such reasoning is more emotional than factual. Unlike Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox users, IE users were exposed to active attacks against unpatched, critical vulnerabilities for months at a time " So, what else is new! That isn't different than what has been the case with IE forever. Sorry, but I've been around here long enough without the lecture, which is exactly why I said I didn't want it. |
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Name Game Premium Member join:2002-07-07 Grand Rapids, MI
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We expect you to show up for Patch Tuesday from now on..40 day/night vacations and no postcards is the pits. |
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DownTheShorePray for Ukraine Premium Member join:2003-12-02 Beautiful NJ |
to Name Game
Sorry for the delay. I'm running it on Vista. |
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