Thursday, April 24, 2008

My Morning Routine

I hate Internet Explorer 7.0 with a vengeance, but unfortunately due to certain policies at work, I have to use it.  The reason why I hate it may seem trivial, but it just goes to show you how a simple annoyance can eventually upset you to no end.  Internet Explorer refuses, absolutely refuses, to honor "Lock the Toolbars".  You see, I am very anal about what toolbars and strips I have on my screen, and I like to maximize the amount of viewable space for actual browsing.  So I actually try to get as many toolbars scrunched together as I can.  For whatever reason, every morning when I log in and start IE, it reorders my toolbars so that the "Links" bar is below my del.icio.us toolbar, and I have reorder them so they are next to each other.

If for some reason IE crashes on me during the day, and I have to restart it, then I have to do the "move the toolbars" dance all over again.  Why on Earth can't IE actually remember my settings and honor them?!

Rants
#    9:37 AM by Nick | 4 Comments |
4/24/2008 1:57:17 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Use Firefox, problem solved.
Derik Whittaker |derikAT NOSPAMgraudo dot com
4/24/2008 1:59:19 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Would if I could. But that doesn't excuse the usability stupidity of the IE team either in something so basic as respecting user settings.
Nick |nickAT NOSPAMthecodingmonkey dot net
5/1/2008 7:45:01 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Wow, that drives me batty, too. It's been true for several releases of IE, too. Not only do they drift and rearrange based on who knows what, but I'm convinced that the state of "Lock the toolbars" also flips without my direct intervention. If I had to guess, there's some internal battle for placement every time a new IE window opens. The File..Help menus probably want supremacy. And it goes on an on... I'd like to zap the IE search box because I've got Google toolbar. I haven't found a way to pin the History window; it's always closing. FAVICONs seem to appear and disappear depending on the weather. And then there's all the everyday hangs, stalls, and just-disappears crashes. IE is the Internet and the sole use of the computer for many folks. Why isn't it absolutely rock-solid? What, I'm the only one who has two dozen windows/tabs open at a time? Why do I find zombie IE processes hogging RAM? I can't blame it all on Acrobat Reader, either.
John Foust |jfoustAT NOSPAMthreedee dot com
5/30/2008 9:11:00 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)
Firefox. just try it for a month.
anon |anonAT NOSPAManon dot anon
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