Fred wrote:
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I can't see any difference between IE 7 and IE 8. But anyway you can
install mozilla Thunderbird for email and newgroups without installing
firefox. You don't need the whole package.
You can't? This is what I posted last March to
public.microsoft.internetexplorer.general:
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1. I can't combine toolbars on one line. To save wasted space, I used to
have the Links bar on the RHS of the Command bar (with Spoofstick in the
middle). No longer possible with IE8. To be fair, Opera can't do this
either.
2. In the same vein the "Find" box no longer floats but adds yet another bar
to reduce the screen page size. The IE7 floating box could be put above the
page if necessary to avoid blocking the page content (ie restricting the
toolbars, but that didn't matter whilst using "Find").
3. The half-hearted attempt at showing spoof addresses by highlighting the
domain name whilst greying out the rest of the address. This is really
annoying if I want to select part of the address, which is now much less
visible against the white address background. If you want to see how this
should be done, just load the BHO "Spoofstick".
None of the above can be turned off or made an option to behave like they
did in IE7. Why?
I must say that I don't have much use for accelerators or web slices, but
can see how others could find these very useful. But these are options
which can (more or less) be turned off.
And I like the idea of linked tabs showing up in one colour. But I found
that it was now hard to tell which tab marked the open page on screen.
Sure, there was always the "x" to see. Previously, without this linking
facility the open tab was white, whilst all the others were grey. Now the
open tab's distinguishing marking (apart from the "x") is that the bottom
10% of it is grey. Why not make it all white with the bottom part coloured?
Much more obvious.
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AFAIAA nothing has changed with IE8 since I posted the above, unless there
are some third-party fixes available. In fact, with laptops moving to
widescreen from 4:3, and showing less vertically, points 1 and 2 are even
more relevant.
out of curiosity. Does it