rsewill
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The latest version I can run still works fine. IE5 on my Mac.
IE 9 BOMB
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I lost my sense of humor on that subject about 4000 messages ago, when someone thinks it's funny to talk about a darn typo.
Now i know what the vauge private message was about that you sent me ... a link there would have helped me figure out that you were complaining about my reply here.
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there are a few sites that require higer versions. for instance.. to fully use amazon.com's 1-click buy feature, you need to be on ie 7+.... it works, MOSTLY on ie6, but some features are disabled.
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Then why didn't the install just simply do that, instead of ATEMPTING to figure out if there was a conflict. just remove all possible conflicts and go??
again.. a 'FAIL' on the part of the code or the programmer.
if it's hard to figure out what will or will not be compatible ( and I've no argument that it would be difficult ).. then the installer should just simply globally disable the add ons before the install, and be done with it. simple.. effective.. robust. Instead.. MS opted to release it with some software that.. more or less was useless... in telling you that it would disable incompatible plug ins, it lulled the user into thinking there would be no issues, and that the installer was handling it. If nothing else, don't even have the installer do it and just tell the user to do it. again.. fail on the part of MS.
neither of those occured.as for my lack of humor.
I lack humor after hundreds of message laughing at me for a typo ? really? that's all there was to post about?
and I lack humor dealing with software from a co that should be -the- expert on the subject of THAT SPECIFIC SOFTWARE.
this isn't the late 80's with no plug an play, and back when you had to set jumpers on add in cards to address them and then load up drivers manually after bootup.. this is 25ys later where the parking meter outside work runs java... and my fridge can order it's own filter replacement thru my home network...
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SG, I'm betting the update from MS, (or most updates), likely will never have a program for disabling all the add-ons, or other 3rd parties programs on an individual PC, mainly from a security standpoint. The task of coding for so many programs would be monumental, not counting most programs change with updates, so previous MS code may not be possible to keep up with the ever changing code of the add-ons and such.
I had a similar issue with Firefox and the new "update" as have 1000's of others if you Google it or visit the FF forums. I new better, I dont like to use any "betas"since I prefer to not be their "guinea pig".
Big , or major updates I will run in "safe mode" to help eliminate most background junk
I had a similar issue with Firefox and the new "update" as have 1000's of others if you Google it or visit the FF forums. I new better, I dont like to use any "betas"since I prefer to not be their "guinea pig".
Big , or major updates I will run in "safe mode" to help eliminate most background junk
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Being a computer dummy, I sometimes have a variety of problems with this contraption, but I'm running IE9 with Windows 7 and I think it's working properly. Of course I'm one who usually figures every upgrade is actually a downgrade.:laughing:
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I'm -guessing- that if i had win7, it may not have been an issue. but i'm on xp.. so....
in any event.. all is good now that i've roleld back to 8. just need to hold out to 10 I guess. that looks about like the way my luck goes with IE versions. 6 good, 7 bad, 8 good, 9 bad... am putting my $$ on 10...
in any event.. all is good now that i've roleld back to 8. just need to hold out to 10 I guess. that looks about like the way my luck goes with IE versions. 6 good, 7 bad, 8 good, 9 bad... am putting my $$ on 10...
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I have IE9 but it crashes daily. Didn't like Firefox when I tried it. I also use Chrome which doesn't crash and is generally faster than IE. I go back to IE9 only because I am so familiar with it but as I get used to Chrome I may just dump IE.
(Edit: just realized I posted this using Chrome so I must be getting used to it:thumbsup
(Edit: just realized I posted this using Chrome so I must be getting used to it:thumbsup
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i would have stayed with 9 if I could have gotten it to run. I read the faq and details on it in the updates section and it sounded nice.
more viewable area for pages.. better compatibility modes.. etc. too bad, for me, it was a pipe dream. it just kept loading my home page, crashing, auto restarting, trying to load again.. if you manually 'x'ed the home page just as it loaded, it would try to relaod your last session instead, and then.. still crash... quite unfortunate.. half expected.. but still unfortunate...
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more viewable area for pages.. better compatibility modes.. etc. too bad, for me, it was a pipe dream. it just kept loading my home page, crashing, auto restarting, trying to load again.. if you manually 'x'ed the home page just as it loaded, it would try to relaod your last session instead, and then.. still crash... quite unfortunate.. half expected.. but still unfortunate...
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In every software world EXCEPT microslop - it is done and done very effectively.
dpkg, apt-get, MUON, whatever all else you use KNOW about dependencies and conflicts.
I am not sure HOW it is done, but I am fairly sure that MUON will temporarily remove what needs to be removed, do the updates/upgrades you asked for, then put back what it temporarily removed.
This is barely higher tech than manufacturing BoM and "used on" trees and tables, compatibility matrices - which pre-date Bill Gates by many decades.
I sometimes don't use a particular Linux distribution for several months, when I do there can be a hundred or more updates in 300 or so meg of downloads. I can click on it and KNOW that it won't blow up or give me mysterious symptoms days or weeks later.
Vax/VMS by dec (RIP) managed it too.
MS quality control seems to still be massively parallel field test, by PAYING customers.