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IE 7 is now generally available.
I just downloaded it. It seems alright but like FF it doesn't open a new tab for anything on your favorites list. At least with FF though you cand hold down CTRL while you click to open a new tab. With IE it appears that you have to open a new "blank" tab first.
Oh well, it's an improvement over IE 6 anyway. :cool:
Been using it for a couple of months, both at home and at work. The only downside so far is that the beta (latest release) doesn't really handle authentication with packages like SAP, so there's a work-around that fiddles with the registry (automatically) and makes it seem like IE6. Apparently a SAP issue rather than IE.
I must say it's much better than IE6, but then it wouldn't have to be that great to be better, eh? :D
With FF you can right click on the favourite and then left click on "open in new tab"Quote:
Originally Posted by craigb
Or just click on the favourite or other link with the third mouse button ;) :)
Pardon my ignorance, but why bother?
P
:confused:
With what, Midge?
Tabs? I found it invaluable when on dialup, could "queue" up a heap of tabs & have them loading as I was reading ones loaded earlier.
Still find it good to keep a main page on one tab, then load links, posts, whatever on following tabs. Better I reckon than going back & forth to the same page, especially if exploring a heap of links, forum posts or whatever.
Cheers............Sean
Gees........you guys!
Go to Mozilla.org & look for an extension called 'Tab Mix Plus' You can customize what opens, closes & a heap of other things with it for FF.
HERE is a link to the pdf help file that explaines everything it does.
I couldn't live without it now!!! :cool:
With IE?
It seems to me that Microsoft are just continually playing catchup, still haven't quite figured out how to make their browser standards compliant, and there are a few others out there that do the whole thing a heap better.
Just an observation, I only keep access to IE to see how my web pages look in it.
Oh gee golly by gum, tabs!! wow!! I wonder why no one else thought of that three years ago!! Sorry, but that's what I meant... MS have this wonderful way of copying, then letting everyone believe it's a really new and really good idea!
Having said all that, IE accounts for 55% of all traffic visiting sites for which I have access to data, so there is a certain level of comfort, but the many sites which are optimised for IE are obviously missing out on half the traffic they could be getting!
Cheers,
P
Yeh, but...... don't you use a Mac Biting? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by bitingmidge
Yes Maaaajoooor, I have a Mac, but I know that most of the bods crawling my sites don't, which just gives me one headache I don't need, making them work for all ;) .
Here are the overall figures for PDRacer.info (although today's figures when viewed separately have patterns which match Oz's almost exactly - MSIE at 72%!)
MSIE 6.0 -55.00%
Firefox 1.5.0 37.00%
Opera 8.50 - 4.00%
Mozilla 5.0 - 2.00%
Safari 1.2 -1.00%
MSIE 5.23 - 1.00%
I don't actually care, but I am curious as to why the other browsers aren't used more?
Cheers,
P (using an old IE version to overcome Oz's password requirement!) :D
Midge, do you use the IE view extension in Firefox? Seems to work well.
Al, I need your login & password for Treasures on Plenty, seems to be popping up on this page each time ??
:D :D
(used work offline & lotsa button pressing to get around :D )
Cheers.............Sean
Fixed.:oQuote:
Originally Posted by scooter
Al :o :o :o :o :o