Internet Explorer 5.5 - I HATE this thing.. any way to fix this annoyance when you click a link....

[Valhalla1]

In IE 5.0/5.01, when you hold the mouse over the a link, the lower left hand corner of the IE window shows the url of the link target.. and when you click the link, that immidately changes to "Connecting.." and "opening site", etc.. giving me visual feedback that the browser is DOING something.

in IE 5.5, when you hold the mouse over the link, it shows the target url, but when you click it, it sill shows the target url, even though the browser is contacting the dns, etc. it just holds the damn url there and everything "freezes" so it doesn't look like the browser is doing anything.. its the most annoying thing in any application I've ever used in my life.. it makes me want to beat the living sh!t out of my computer!! :| :| :|

anyway, is there any way to have IE 5.5 NOT act this way? :disgust: :|

 

[Delusion2001]

i have IE 5.5 and it shows it.....i dunno why not on yours

some pages have a source in the page that makes it so that it won't show the link in the bar

but i have it here on IE 5.5. would be interested to konw why it's not on yours

 

[Valhalla1]

no, I'm not talking about the link.. I know it shows the link, thats the problem.. when you hold the mouse over the link, it shows it, and when you then click on the link, that url just stays there on the damn status bar, instead of changing to "contacting site" "opening site" "xx items left" etc. like in IE 5. there is no visual feedback that the browser is doing anything.

this is a part of the code of the browser, not from any html code of a site I'm talking about

 

[Mark]

I know what your talking about. Wish I knew the answer to that too.

 

[Sporko]

It shows this for me also on IE 5.5 - url, "opening ...", "# items remaining ..."

 

[AncientPC]

It shows up all the connecting stuff on mine . . .

 

[Valhalla1]

I'd have to show you what I mean.. it holds up for like 5 seconds, it doesn't change the status bar immediately after you click a link, so I can't tell if I clicked it and I end up clicking it 4 or 5 times sometimes.. on IE 5.0, IMMEDIATELY after you click a link, the status bar changes.

check it out in IE 5.5.. click a link and see if anything changes immediately

 

[crazychicken]

who cares about # of items remaining anyway? lol

 

[Ben]

You could assign a click.wav so that when you click on a link you get an audible confirmation.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

<< I'd have to show you what I mean.. it holds up for like 5 seconds, it doesn't change the status bar immediately after you click a link, so I can't tell if I clicked it and I end up clicking it 4 or 5 times sometimes.. on IE 5.0, IMMEDIATELY after you click a link, the status bar changes.

check it out in IE 5.5.. click a link and see if anything changes immediately >>



Hmm - it changes over immediately on both my home and work installations of IE 5.5 (a P3-733 and P2-400, respectively, both on broadband connections). Are you on dialup, or using a slower computer? Also, you may want to make sure you are running the most current version of 5.5 by running Windows Update, as I believe there has been at least one service pack/patch.

 

[Valhalla1]

I'm on a quad T3 connection on a PIII-933 system here at work.. and it doesn't change instantly. I mean, it changes but not INSTANTLY like it did in IE 5. I've seen it like this on tons of IE 5.5 installations. I don't think I'm explaning it correctly.

basically it licks my donkey balls and its driving me insane

 

[misle]

I got the exact same thing. I click a link and nothing happens. Except when I move the mouse to the Back, Forward, Stop part of the screen, then I get the &quot;I'm Thinking&quot; mouse pointer. After a few seconds (usually about 10-15) it will connect with the host and begin tranfering the web page. I usually get mad and click stop about 50 times and try again. Win2k doesn't do this but Win98 does on my system.
One thing that did minutely help is, go into Add/Remove and remove IE 5.5, it will give you the option to &quot;Repair&quot;. It will make you reboot, but seemed to help a little with my system.

Is there a way to revert back to IE 5.01?

Hope that helps...

Matt

 

[Pretty Cool]

I keep mentioning this because it works.
IE Eradicator

 

[mOrphine]

my IE 5.5 shows the url at the bottom when it's trying to connect, but i usually refer to the logo on the top right-hand corner to see if its connecting. usually when IE is connecting to a site, the logo sorta revolves, doesnt it?

when i click on something n the logo is stagnant, it usually indicates something's wrong

 

[Valhalla1]

thats true.. some people focus on the IE logo on the upper right to see if the browser is &quot;thinking&quot;. I never thought of that.. I've always focused on the status bar, just got into that habit and now IE 5.5 drives me insane.. gonna have to stick with IE 5.01 until IE 6 comes out.. and if 6.0 does the same thing, looks like its IE 5 for me for a looong time

 

[chrisbest01]

it's free, can't complain too much.

anyway, the bar shows for me.

 

[thegreatjeff]

I just got IE 6 and it does the same thing...argh!

 

[Valhalla1]

NEWS FLASH

okay I figured out what the hell was driving me insane.. its not only the bar that doesn't change immediately - its the cursor!

in IE 5.01 when you click a link, the cursor immediately changes to a cursor with an hourglass...

in IE 5.5 when you click a link, the cursor remains the same, giving you no visual evidence that the browser is &quot;thinking&quot;


DAMN I HATE THAT!!!!

 

[Valhalla1]

so anyone know how to fix the non-changine cursor?

 

[Valhalla1]

:|

 

[hyperphate]

I end up closing the browser and reopen it to go to the site again just because of this issue.

Happens on my IE 5.00 as well.. (I went to 5.5 but came back to 5.0 because my printer just spit out blank pages when i tried to print).