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re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Justin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:06:01 GMT

Lies. There is a fairly easy way to remove the 'pesky green color'. First of all, it's not always that shade of green. I've opened 2 links from your page and I got a light green and yellow; There's different colors.

To remove the tab grouping, go to tools> Internet Options. On the 'General' tab, under the tabs group, click settings. Uncheck 'Enable tab groups'.

I found out you can also disable tabbed browsing o.O

re: BizTalk and "Oslo" ...

ahmeds — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:35:54 GMT

Are you attending the PDC? let me know soon !

re: Other ways to deal with suspended messages...

Paul — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:26:32 GMT

I would like to display the body of the suspended message in the Message Flow window, is that possible?

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Zlatan's Blog [MVP SharePoint] — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:18:49 GMT

Finally I get a chance to write a blog post after all this time. After such a long time I got to also

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Robert MacLean — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 12:20:23 GMT

Agree, which is why one of the few things I still use in IEPro (www.ie7pro.com) is their tab ordering controls ;)

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Ryan CrawCour — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:24:45 GMT

Rob;

I figured out the way IE decides to position my tabs; it's annoying actually because i struggle to find where it puts them. The grouping is an interesting idea, but i'd prefer to have the option of chosing how it should behave ... as in Firefox, you can tell it where to put new tabs etc.

The color thing still drives me nuts; it makes my screen look like a smartie box. Jeesh.

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Ryan CrawCour — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:27:33 GMT

Can anybody explain the sometimes green tab bar, and sometimes red? today i noticed the tabs were red, yeterday they were green.... hmmmm

I am a tad skeptical about yet another browser entering the market that does stuff in yet another different way so whilst the world go nuts over the promise of chrome i must say i aint going to rush out and download it. life as a developer of web content is already too much of a nightmare having to worry about 10+ different browers (or their own manifestations) to consider yet another.

And really, the claims that Chrome leads the way to a world without Windows is just madness at best ... what do they think Chrome is going to run ON TOP of?

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

benniewentzel — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:05:55 GMT

found startups slow at first, but getting used to and liking the faster browsing speeds. Ms always supprise me with the simplicity in adding new features, with none being "in-your-face". Useability allround is good, and I think they should be sorting out the little memory problems shortly.

Must say that I have been more inclined to use IE since the latest beta, but I cant wait for the real war to start between google chrome vs IE vs Firefox. Should inforce for some interesting developments soon...

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Robert MacLean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:14:58 GMT

Oh and since you asked about other browsers, seems Google is getting into the act: www.winsupersite.com/.../google_chrome_preview.asp

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Robert MacLean — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:14:20 GMT

"Does IE simply fire up a new "instance" of itself per tab?" - It does. The IE team lously coupled the tabs from everything else so that privacy could be kept high and reliability is kept high (i.e. one tab can crash without crashing others) blogs.msdn.com/.../ie8-and-reliability.aspx

"like the silly green color of the tabs. What's this about?" - That is a new concept they have introduced to group common tabs together. If you open a new tab by right clicking a link and selecting new tab, it puts them together and makes them the same colours. I have gotten to having silver, green, and blue all at once. blogs.msdn.com/.../part-i-better-everyday-browsing.aspx

My thoughts: I ran IE8 b1 for a long time and loved it. IE8 b2 feels much slower and a bigger resource hog (It uses only around 2.5% of my RAM on average, but thats about double than IE B1). My biggest gripe is the slowness of rending pages with repeating background images, it seems to load them like loading a JPEG of a hottie on a 56k modem... too slow. The best new feature for me is the compatibility view button next to the refresh button which allows the page to be rendered in IE7 mode. It does it instantly with no restart, unlike IE8 b1!

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

Ryan CrawCour — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 13:58:33 GMT

senkwe;

Thanks for the comments;

The "Awesome Bar" was going to be part of my next installment of the things i do actually like about IE8 (yes there are a few).

re: IE8 beta 2 initial thoughts (1 of n)

senkwe — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:35:26 GMT

Well, you asked for thoughts :)

I'm personally a bit surprised that I like the browser. I think the IE8 version of the Awseome bar is better implemented than in FF3 (for example, it's easier to selectively delete items). Also, the in-private browsing being built in is a nice touch. Lastly, memory usage is a bit of a red herring. If an app is using 300MB that is otherwise sitting there idle, I say go for it. If however in doing so it brings my machine to a crawl, then we have a problem. So far so good though.

A little Friday humour ....

A world apart from the everday ... — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:39:29 GMT

After the week I have had preparing for TechEd and the week I am going to have at TechEd and Partner

re: Facebook is evil .....

Dan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:02:41 GMT

Guys i found a way for any1 to get their account "terminated"

Note: groups that attack a specific person or group of people (e.g. racist, sexist, or other hate groups) will not be tolerated. Creating such a group will result in the immediate termination of your Facebook account.

There you have it, cause some shit and say goodbye to your details for good :)

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