My Morning Routine

Derik Whittaker

4/24/2008 1:57:17 PM #

Use Firefox, problem solved.

Nick

4/24/2008 1:59:19 PM #

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.

John Foust

5/1/2008 7:45:01 AM #

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.

anon

5/30/2008 9:11:00 PM #

Firefox. just try it for a month.