Peeve:
You click on a link. THe page loads. Everything is hunky-dory.
Then the stupid “internet explorer cannot open the page XXXXXX. Operation Aborted.”
YOU JUST OPENED THE PAGE. WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME YOU CAN’T OPEN IT WHEN IT’S OPEN RIGHT THERE ON THE SCREEN? SHUT UP AND GO AWAY!! BILL GATES BURN IN HELL!!
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I was having a heck of a time accessing comments that were disqus-based until I reduced the “inprivate filtering” setting on my XP. Which tells me that disqus-site likes to track I guess.
That is IE protecting you from something on the page. You can tone it down some, but I find hitting the refresh button sometimes helps the page. It is usually wrapped around cookie behavior.
If you don’t like it, use chrome. But you will be running a bare bones browser that will not care when you hit the page from hell that tells you that you have a virus and let it scan as that page is a virus.
It is getting more common to see that page.
Paul,
That’s it!
Last September my XP went to blue screen and I’ve still not recovered all that I had on that harddrive, especially the programs.
It was like less than a week after I began using Chrome.
Incidentally, Avast! Premium provides a function it calls “Safe Zone.” It allows me to browse while it keeps an eagle eye for all sorts of intrusions. It specifically uses Chrome — and now your ‘barebones’ comment explains why. Avast! doesn’t have to deal with conflicts that IE or Firefox would almost certainly impose.
The real question is, why dont you use a browser that sucks less.
They all suck, but, in general, chrome and Firefox suck less.
Habit, mostly, Chris.
Other than drawing software I don’t do many upgrades, preferring to deal with the problems i know rather than upgrading to problems I do not know. Suppose this pushed me over the edge- though the sites that cause me trouble on IE also cause me trouble on Firefox.
I hates me some Software Jihadis, but I’ll say that I haven’t used Explorer since ’06…
Not a jihadi about it, but I haven’t used Explorer on a home machine in more than, oh, hell, NEVER.
I do occasionally use Explorer at work because some of our on-line apps require it.
Seriously, change… And don’t look back.
MC
Somethings going on. Look at Farmer Franks site for more of the Google vs. Microsoft War. I think you might be a victim of “Friendly Fire”.
I’ve come to the conclusion that they ALL suck, and it’s just a question of WHICH WAY.
Internet Explorer has been improved beyond usefulness, and has been since version 6.
Firefox is getting there.
Chrome’s not ready for prime time. (A bookmark bar would be useful.)
IMHO of course.
About the time Netscape disappeared, it was between where IE and Firefox are right now. That was what I used before they stopped supporting it; and I switched to Firefox and found it a great improvement.
Now, however, Firefox has become bloated and buggy and annoying, but it still mostly works.
I’d switch to Chrome right now if it had a bookmark bar instead of a drop-down menu for bookmarks.
Ed,
It HAS a bookmark bar, it’s just optional.
Tell me how to access a bookmark sidebar in Chrome. I have been through all the settings and options menus in that thing and can’t find it. I did a Google search and discovered that everyone wanted a sidebar for bookmarks “like IE and Firefox”.
It’s not a sidebar, it’s a top bar. For a sidebar you need an extension or a theme.
There are a number of sidebar enabled themes; just not the default.