I just downloaded and installed Internet Explorer 6. It looks pretty much the same, although both IE6 and the new Outlook Express 6 seem to run a bit faster. Has anyone else tried it yet?
I have and didn’t notice a whole lot of difference either, and it’s still missing the one feature I really want built into a browser: The ability to kill pop-ups without killing Javascript.
Anyway, I’ve been using it for a while and haven’t seen any real improvements or probs.
Fenris
yeah, no big deal. What I want is a way to force all background colors to light grey. The white just hurts my eyes.
Actually I’ve had it for a couple weeks and have already forgotten what IE5 was like so I can’t really say what’s nice about it.
I like the way it lets me manage and block cookies. I don’t like the “image toolbar”, irritating thing, I turned it off. I also didn’t like the fact that it enabled “install on demand” in advanced options. I had un-enabled it a long time ago because it kept letting Comet Cursor install.
That’s right!!! That silly little bar on images. It took me awhile to figure out, Oh this is something new. It also automatically resizes pictures to fit your screen if they’re too large, which can distort photos.
Ack, I’m going to have to go back to 5.5, if it’s still available. The games at games.yahoo.com no longer work. I can see the game operating normally but the error message that pops up is greedy and won’t let me do anything until I acknowledge it, and when I do, the game exits. (The error message is really helpful as usual: Microsoft Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.)
Also, the right-click no longer works, so no more “Save target as”, or any of that other good stuff. Am I the only one with this problem?
Hopefully IE7 will work better.
I’ve been using the beta for a while, and I like it. It handles style sheets and xml better than earlier IEs (although they were very good too), and it does print preview. Yeah, it’s not that much better, but better is better. And yeah, the image toolbar thing is dumb, but I like the image autoresizer.
ok, judging by this thread, I am NEVER going to switch to IE6 unless there is a way to turn off the image resizer, and, I must be able to right-click. I use that so much, for so many differnt things. I mean, why would they take that out? That’s the whole reason a PC mouse has two buttons… is it possible to turn on the right click and turn off the image resizer?
I think the problem with right-clicking was an individual problem, as I’ve never had that problem with IE 6 (in the WinXP beta, as well as the beta of IE 6 I used with Win2000).
I think the image toolbar can be disabled, but I’m not 100% sure. For the most part, I don’t mind it, but I do mind the image resizing.
I uninstalled IE 6 about a month ago. It was causing all sorts of trouble. Unexpected crashes, email worked sometimes, not others, same with newsgroups. IE 5.5 is not great, but at least it works most of the time.
I haven’t upgraded yet, no plans to real soon either. It sounds like if you’re running 5.5, there’s no big advantage to upgrading apart from those already mentioned.
The one odd thing about it though is apparently IE6 no longer supports Netscape-style plugins, forcing third-party vendors to come up with ActiveX versions of their products. They are doing this ostensively for “security” reasons, although I think we’ve all seen how bulletproof ActiveX is. Apparently Apple has already fixed Quicktime to run under IE6, but not all others will work yet.
Probably.
Right Click works just fine for me. (Just upgraded yesterday.)
Perhaps you were just trying to use it at a site that uses Java to disable right clicking?
Outlook is working rather better than 5.5 - not refusing to respond for quite so long when it’s loading email, or marking a NG as read.
I’ve been using it for a day now, and I don’t notice much difference between it and 5.5. I turned off install on demand, and I actually like the image resizing for pictures that would otherwise require scrolling. One click, and they restore to full size.
And the right-click - save as function still works just fine.
IE 5.5 Service Pack 2 also disabled the Netscape plugins, which is quite annoying.
I haven’t upgraded yet, but I don’t really see why I should. I run at 1600x1200, so I rarely have to scroll for large images, and I think I would turn of the image toolbar. As for cookie blocking, I already have a cookie blocker, that also blocks popups, webbugs, and other annoying privacy invasions and javascript madness. If it weren’t for Web Washer, I think I would just turn off javascript.
From what I was recently told IE 6 does not support java. As it was explained to me Microsoft wants to hurt Sun, the company that puts out java and is Microsoft’s biggest competitor. Whether it is true or not a don’t know.
Microsoft was ordered to do java Sun’s way, not their way, which even judge Pennefield admiited was better implementation for Windows PC’s. So MS decided to go without and let Java wither in the vine.
With the lack of Java in IE6, it sounds like Microsoft has just given Netscape a golden opportunity to recapture some market share. Java is just too widely used and too popular for people to abandon it just because Microsoft decided not to use it in MSIE.
Too bad, really. I actually prefer MSIE over Netscape, but will avoid version 6 in favor of a Java-capable Netscape.
Right click works just fine for me–must be a glitch with his computer.
Yeah, you can turn off the image toolbar and auto-resize, as I have done. Go to Tools–>Internet Options…, click on the Advanced tab, and scroll down to the options under Multimedia. Uncheck Enable Automatic Image Resizing and Enable Image Toolbar to get rid of them.
Also, you can run Java through IE6, it’s just that now the first time you load a page that uses Java you have to download a 5.2 MB plugin. Obviously this is deliberately designed to frustrate 56k modem users and alienate them from Java.
I was running the IE6 beta, and I uninstalled it (reverted back to 5.5) because of the following problem:
I routinely keep three or four browser windows open. I use folders on the Links toolbar to go to all my favorites. When I would click on a link off the Links toolbar, the new site would always, always open up in the first browser window I had open, instead of the current browser window.
I thought this problem would be fixed with the gold version of IE6, but it is not. My just-installed version of IE6 does the same damn thing. I cannot find any settings that may control this behavior.
So it looks like I am once again going back to IE5.5
Mars, I had the exact same problem with 5.5. I have no idea what I did to correct it, but I’m not so sure it’s the version that’s your problem.