Help help, my helicopter is full of tabs?
Dec. 5th, 2006 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_amberI turn on the computer after 4 days away and WHAT??!!
When did my nice predictable IE become a tabbed browser, where have all the icons that aren't Google Toolbar gone and where where are my Links at the top?
How am I going to find LJ in the morning NOW????
Damn them! damn them all to hell...
(is it just me???)
When did my nice predictable IE become a tabbed browser, where have all the icons that aren't Google Toolbar gone and where where are my Links at the top?
How am I going to find LJ in the morning NOW????
Damn them! damn them all to hell...
(is it just me???)
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Date: 2006-12-05 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 07:45 pm (UTC)I think that's doable under some of the recent legislation, isn't it?
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 08:34 pm (UTC)One of those settings I immediately disable, so I tend to forget it was ever an option.
I got called downstaris today by a colleague who reckoned that using my program had caused his PC to reboot. What I then spotted was the MS Update tooltray icon showing a message "I have just rebooted your machine".
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Date: 2006-12-05 09:00 pm (UTC)And how do get my Links back at the top of the window???
(Thanks BTW. It must be nice to know everything..)
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:56 pm (UTC)I have Mozilla Firefox on the computer upstairs, and I think learning new software packages is not my most favorite hobby.
And how come all these fonts have changed? Duh. Big and legible, how nice.
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 08:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-06 09:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-06 07:23 pm (UTC)Does that come with a free beard?
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Date: 2006-12-07 08:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-07 12:22 pm (UTC)New Linux, No Beard
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Date: 2006-12-05 08:36 pm (UTC)ANd look! I have legs!
Legs
Date: 2006-12-05 09:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-05 09:15 pm (UTC)Under the hood, it's a big improvement. Far from perfect, but a big step in the right direction. From the user perspective, I reckon they took a bad UI and made it worse.
Regardless of whether you think it's better or not, they certainly have managed to make it radically different from what was there before, which will probably alienate and confuse an awful lot of people (to date, about 15% of UK IE users, I think, with a few percent more every week).
Tools->toolbars->links should get your link bar back.
Tools->toolbars->customise... should assist with getting some of the other icons back, though they've done quite a bit of furniture moving, and your precise choice of widgets might not be available any more.
Righ-clicking on an empty space (i.e. not a tab) in the tab bar will let you toggle large icons on/off, if you're that way inclined.
You *may* want to tweak Tools->Menubar to get File, Edit, View and friends back. Then again, given where it puts them, you may not.
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Date: 2006-12-05 11:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-08 01:52 am (UTC)Whatever happened to moving stuff around on the toolbar, the bastards? Why is it giving me f-ugly fonts no matter which ones I select? WHY DOES MICROSOFT HATE ME SO MUCH?
OK, those are all rhetorical questions.
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Date: 2006-12-05 09:17 pm (UTC)