Comments on: 4 Internet Explorer 8 Annoyances

By: Spytalk

Spytalk — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:23:18 +0000

After how many years now (15+) and the idiot inbred managers at micro$oft still do not understand usability and screen real estate? Very telling of the money-making quality-fifth marketing mentaliy of just make it fancy/pretty at microcr@p.

By: vi76

vi76 — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:45:36 +0000

No. 3 seems to be even more annoying when you want to drag it not to the desktop or an(other) folder, but an application, i.e. Word.
You just get a red circle with a diagonal line. Not even a prompt.

You still can copy/paste though, but it’s annoying just the same.

There is an option in Tools>Internet Options>tab Security>Custom Level, where you can choose enable, disable or prompt to drag-and-drop, but IE8 doesn’t seem to respect that choice.
If that’s true and that’s the actual cause, it should be reasonable easy to fix through an update. Here’s to hoping they will…

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 27 May 2009 12:14:21 +0000

This is REALLY annoying…why is the Favourites Bar not movable?? I have lots of links in my Links folder and I want to be able to access them from a DROP-DOWN BUTTON ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE LIKE IN IE-7. I don’t want to be forced to have the first few linksshown above the tabs causing clutter and the rest being in the drop down list. WHY DOES THE DROP-DOWN BUTTON HAVE TO DISAPPEAR IF I CHOOSE TO HIDE THE FAVORITES BAR??? WHOSE DUMB IDEA WAS THAT?

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By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:49:21 +0000

A couple more IE8 annoyances I’ve noticed:

If you add a new Favorite into a Favorites subfolder, then try to add another Favorite, IE8 forgets the last folder you added to. This leads to a lot of repetitive folder navigation when adding consecutive Favorites for a given topic. IE 7 and earlier remebered the last Favorites subfolder you selected when adding consecutive favorites.

Also, when dragging an address of a local Intranet page to the Links toolbar, the name of the new shortcut appears as the File Name of the page, rather than the Page Title. IE 7 and 6 would name the shortcut according to its Page Title.

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By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:32:22 +0000

Here is another annoyance that I spotted today. The file menu contains an entry called Tools. The very same name is also used in the command bar. Both Tools menus do not contain the same entries. The command bar entry does contain an option to enable Suggested Sites while the main Tools menu does not. That’s highly confusing.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 13 May 2009 04:05:21 +0000

I do not like Firefox so much because it takes a lot of memory. But with all the great addons for it I do not see an alternative anymore.

By: Alek Davis

Alek Davis — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:19:21 +0000

I totally agree on the toolbar points. Pretty dumb that you cannot split or combine toolbars, like you can in Firefox. Also, the down arrow for folders on the favorites toolbar takes space causing the toolbar to be wider than it should be. I use Xmarks to sync my IE favorites and Firefox bookmarks, and while they look fine in Firefox, the same bookmarks overflow the IE bookmarks toolbar (because of white space used by stupid arrows).

By: LR

LR — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:51:33 +0000

I tried and quit IE8. Everytime I used the mouse to right click on a favorite, it hung up with the hour glass display, (not locked). The only way out was to exit IE8. I have XP pro sp3.

By: nicainmiami

nicainmiami — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:12:24 +0000

I’m quite happy with IE8. It’s not as customizable or offer features as Firefox but it’s still a great browser.

By: RG

RG — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:45:28 +0000

@libeco, it is also personal preference as you allude to, Esc hides the ctrl+f which personally I prefer to something like another ctrl+f. Dragging a link to the top (near other tabs) opens it in a new tab, again I prefer that because I don’t like mouse gestures or anything like them.

By: libeco

libeco — Sun, 10 May 2009 10:13:13 +0000

I’m using Maxthon for years now, which is built on IE, I like it a lot. So to be honest, I don’t really know about these annoyances since I use IE with another look and feel around it.

On the other hand I’m really no firefox lover. I simply need it when doing webdevelopment, but it also has many annoyances, so for regular browsing it remains untouched.

One huge annoyance I discovered in ff is that Ctrl + F will show you the search in page bar, but hitting Ctrl + F again won’t hide it!

Another one is the Ctrl + clicking a link to open it in a new tab. Come on, seriously, in Maxthon all I do is drag the link 1 cm to any direction and it automagically opens in a new tab.

Don’t get me wrong, Maxthon has it’s annoyances and ff has its good things, but as long as simple things like this can not be done in ff, I will never use it regularly…