A Couple IE Questions

[Pez D Spencer]

For the most part I like Internet Explorer. I tried Firefox and didn't see what the big fuss is about so I went back to IE. However there's a couple things I find really annoying about IE and I can't figure out why it does this. Maybe you guys can shed some light on it for me.

This is a problem that I noticed in both IE 6 and 7. I don't remember if it did it in IE 5 but my guess is that it did. Sometimes when you browse to a webpage the screen jumps to the bottom of the page right after the page loads. Ebay does this especially bad such as when you are browsing search results. It's really annoying when you have to drag the scroll bar back to the top of the page to begin reading it. Maybe this is caused by the webpages themselves and not the browser, but I've always assumed it was IE causing it.

Second, why does it seem that the addresses that IE stores in the drop down of the address box are completely random? I thought that it was supposed to save all addresses that you manually type into the address box, but it seems that IE has a mind of it's own and just picks addresses at random to store and trashes the rest of them.

 

[Markbnj]

With respect to that first behavior, are you sure you aren't opening links with an anchor tag at the end? Anchor tags look like #tagname at the end of the link. They refer to a named spot within a page. Also, IE will remember your scroll position in a window and try to restore that position when you use the forward and backward nav buttons.

On the second one I'm not sure. I thought it saved everything, but obviously there is some selectivity going on, and it may not save things that are already in the history list, for example.