Small Tip for Using Internet Explorer...

[BlueSkyJaunte]

The ones that happen to me daily at work on my POS IBM StinkPad T42 running WinXP.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
The ones that happen to me daily at work on my POS IBM StinkPad T42 running WinXP.

Put W2000 on it and the crashes will end. I head out on the road with my Dell laptop and W2000. Do not reboot it usually for months and never an issue. Oh yea, using Firefox and not IE.

[nostatic]

designing a site with IE-specfic code is done at your own peril. I would never do it for a public site. For an intranet, have at it...but don't complain when you get fleas...

[legion]

I could see it as being useful if you were doing something processing-intensive in IE, you could grab more system resources or run processes concurrently with separate windows that don't share memory.

That being said, I can't think of a single application for this on a PC.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
Put W2000 on it and the crashes will end. I head out on the road with my Dell laptop and W2000. Do not reboot it usually for months and never an issue. Oh yea, using Firefox and not IE.

Not permitted, W2k is "end-of-lifed" at my company and I'd be fired for having an out-of-date and "insecure" OS installed on my computer.

Seriously.

Meanwhile, I just rebooted because this thing froze solid. Again.

[lendaddy]

I have XP on my Toshiba laptop and don't recall a single crash in two years.

Operator error?

[cashflyer]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
Ummm, I thought I would offer a helpful tip to the 95% of people out there who use IE for various reasons.

I appreciate it, Wayne. Although I've known about Ctrl-N for some time, but did not realize there was a memory benefit. Thanks.

I will NOT upgrade to IE7 due to some known conflicts with other apps I run, and due to the security issues. (And due to Microsoft's poor track record with releases of buggy software)

I have considered Firefox, but some of my business interactives require IE. I just prefer not to mess around with a new, seperate browser just to make PPOT faster.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by lendaddy
I have XP on my Toshiba laptop and don't recall a single crash in two years.

Operator error?

Um, no.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Um, no.

Come on now

[KFC911]

I don't think I've ever had Windoze crash on me (been using it since W95...it's just an OS ), but have never seen an operating system (and I've used MANY) that couldn't be crippled by end users doing something brilliant YMMV....

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by lendaddy
Come on now

Last Friday it crashed while I was emailing.

Today it crashed while my viruscan files were updating in the background. Something I have no control over, our IT dept forces the updates.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by BlueSkyJaunte
Last Friday it crashed while I was emailing.

Today it crashed while my viruscan files were updating in the background. Something I have no control over, our IT dept forces the updates.

I'm just messin' with ya.

[m21sniper]

Originally posted by KC911
[B]I don't think I've ever had Windoze crash on me (been using it since W95...it's just an OS ),

You are probably the only guy i've ever run accross that can say that.

[930addict]

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
...Also IE7 is horrible - there are so many security restrictions on the browser that if you have a system designed for use with IE 6, running it on IE7 - it won't work out of the box. Also (at least on the new servers that we just installed), upgrading to IE7 automatically changed the group policy settings so that applications could not be run off of a network drive (and other rediculous restrictions that MS didn't mention as the software was "automatically" updated).

As a professional software designer, I am recommending that everyone stay away from IE7 until more information on the security restrictions implemented are documented.

-Wayne

+1 - IE7 Sucks. So does Vista...stay away from Vista!!!!!!!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally posted by m21sniper
You are probably the only guy i've ever run accross that can say that.

There's gotta be a joke in there somewhere...you know, along the lines of "you have the whitest teeth I've ever come across."

[K.B.]

I dislike the tabbed browsing feature of Firefox. So I just cram as much memory in my computers as I can and use IE.

[trekkor]

I run XP and IE 6.0
No problems here.

Netscape 6.0 seems to do well. i use that for e-mail.

Thanks for the tip, Wayne.


KT