# IE7 quirk with favorites **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354 "2007-01-25T01:42:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354/1 "2007-01-25T01:42:05Z")
Just a heads-up to everyone. I discovered by accident that if you add a favorite (bookmark a page) in IE version 7, it will add every page for every tab you have open. So if you have ten tabs open, and you want to add the mac and cheese recipe page to your favorites, the nine other pages will also save to the same folder. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354/2 "2007-01-25T04:26:23Z")
I think Douglas Adams said it best: > [@](#): > > “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that ‘it is very easy to be blinded by the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.’ In other words – and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation’s Galaxywide success is founded – their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws.” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354/3 "2007-01-25T18:30:16Z")
Just a heads up to our company: IE 7 is not guaranteed to work with the new Oracle systems we are implementing, but the new machines are shipping with Vista which won’t work with IE 6. We’re potentially quite screwed. ---
**Author:** ![TimeWinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bcef8e/32.png) [@TimeWinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TimeWinder)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354/4 "2007-01-26T01:32:25Z")
Notice to\*\* gigi\*\*'s company (not **gigi** her(?)self) and a few thousand others who make web-only or “Web 2.0” products that don’t work with IE7/Vista/Safari/FireFox: Betas of IE7/Vista have been available for more than a year. Microsoft announced them more than two years ago. Practically all of Microsoft’s developer products have covered only Vista/IE7 for months. There are millions of people who potentially want to PAY YOU MONEY, but use a Mac (or use FireFox instead of IE). More importantly, the procedures for writing web apps that will work EVERYWHERE have been published and used for almost a decade now. Your competitors read them, and now they’re the ones getting money from your former customers. If the words “ActiveX Control” or “Windows DRM” mean anything to you…they shouldn’t. What part of “this is your bottom line we’re talking about” don’t you understand? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie7-quirk-with-favorites/389354/5 "2007-01-26T17:45:00Z")
Oh no, and we’re the end user of the Oracle Apps being installed. We’re worried that our users will buy machines with Vista/IE 7 and then not be able to use the functionality we’re training them on. But it looks like Oracle is addressing some of the issues in their white papers so we shall see. It will probably be an issue of training on browser settings which may or may not stick with people.