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what gives with my IE brower?

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lobadobadingdong

Lifer
and before anyone says it, I don't like firefox, I've tried it, and it just doesn't work well at most of the sites I visit.

anyone know what/how to make the links stay out of order?
 
lets start a list shall we? god I hate thread crappers.

ups
fedex
dhl
weather.com (doesn't even pull up the page)
anandtech (extremely small text)
several corporate websites I use for work
msn
microsoft. technet
yahoo (links constantly don't work, and the engine often doesn't return info)
google (same problems as yahoo)
newegg (again extremely small text)
planetbattlefield
dyndns.org
etc.
etc.
etc.

now anyone who actually has usefull information or any ideas to why my links bar keeps sorting alphabetically on it's own?
 
Sorry if you think I'm thread crapping, it's simply the truth though. "Useful information" as to why your links bar sorts and has no option not to is that M$ spent 2 minutes designing it since they had no competition. Spending more time would have meant spending more money, and why bother when you've got a monopoly? Did you give FF a real try, or just use it for 2 minutes and mistake unfamiliarity with it for not liking it? If the latter, give it a week. If the former, then perhaps try Opera. If all else fails, wait on it - Firefox is gaining ground, and I'm sure M$ has noticed. They may revamp IE at some point sooner due to this, rather than waiting until Longhorn.

For extremely small text, try holding down ctrl and using your mouse's scroll wheel. For your other Firefox problems... Not really sure, do you have the latest version installed? I'm having no problem pulling up weather.com, ups.com, fedex.com... The only things I've found Firefox not to work with are web-based windows updates and trendmicro.com's Housecall program (online virus scanner). Perhaps you tried an outdated or corrupted install.
 
I used it for 2 weeks on my main rig (with the exception of a few sites I access regularly that wouldn't pull up at all on firefox), and I still use it on my linux box (conquerer sucks), there are serveral other sites that simply don't work at all. I'm sure it's fine for many, but there are still too many sites that are setup specifically for use with IE6.

sorry if my last post showed my frustration, everytime I ask for IE help or see others ask for IE help there is always a slew of IE bashers on it. I'm aware as much as anyone the monopoly they have and the flaws IE has, the flaws of firefox are simply greater....at least for the pages I visit anyway.
 
No problem, but I definitely think there was something wrong with your install, the more I think about it. As I said, I can pull up the sites you had problems with flawlessly; site designers don't have to have FF specifically in mind when designing a site for FF to render it properly. There's another thread bobbing around the top of this forum on the subject which you could have a look at, maybe it's a problem with the latest executable and I missed it since I got 1.0 when it came out a month or two ago...? Or it might be a sp2 thing - I haven't bothered with sp2 since I don't use IE and already am behind a router & fw.
 
Originally posted by: Gurck
Sorry if you think I'm thread crapping, it's simply the truth though. "Useful information" as to why your links bar sorts and has no option not to is that M$ spent 2 minutes designing it since they had no competition. Spending more time would have meant spending more money, and why bother when you've got a monopoly?
Click to expand...

Of course no one would ever have a similar problem with FireFox. http://forums.anandtech.com/me...2741&enterthread=y 😉

lobadobadingdong, I had a theory about why it was doing it, but I tested it out on my machine and it didn't seem to be the case. Try it out though - go to C:\Documents and Settings\<<username>>\Favorites\Links and turn off Auto-Arrange. That's the only thing I could think of that would make it automatically arange them alphabetically on you.
 
I got it fixed, I re-organized them, then did a window restore, and unlocked and locked the toolbars again, it seems to be holding. strangest dasm thing I ever saw.

I just tried the latest version of firefox, anandtech still has micro text, and weather.com still doesn't load. (the only two I tried on a quick test.)
I deleted the original mozilla profile before the install, and cleared my cache. I don't think it's the install, cause I have the exact same problems on my mandrake (10.0) box.
 
to quickly increase or decrease text size you can hold down ctrl and scroll up and down with the mouse scroll

when you say weather.com won't load... is that mean the page doesn't show up due to errors? it works fine for me and i didnt do any special tweaks to FF. could it be you need to install flash or java for FF (tho that page doesnt appear to need it)
 
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