# Internet Explorer for MAC is driving me NUTS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 11, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106 "2002-04-11T20:54:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106/1 "2002-04-11T20:54:00Z")

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I cannot get the history to persist! I set it at 1000 pages (which is the max) and within hours the links are back to “unvisited” color! This makes me crazy!

This is something that I desperately miss about Netscape, which IE beats in every other respect. I could set the history to remember the last 365 DAYS of places visited… I can’t get IE to remember the last 5 MINUTES!

Anyone know why this is and what I can do about it? (Using 5.0 by the way)

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**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106/2 "2002-04-12T04:26:16Z")

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Bump… so even the DOPE can’t help me? WAH…

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**Author:** ![Geoduck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c37758/32.png) [@Geoduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geoduck)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106/3 "2002-04-12T05:25:52Z")

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Maybe your Explorer preferences are corrupted. Trash them and reboot the Mac. Mine (OS 8.6 --for the last day, I just got a new G4!!) are in the System:Preferences:Explorer:History path.

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**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/internet-explorer-for-mac-is-driving-me-nuts/103106/4 "2002-04-12T09:58:54Z")

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Yikes. I have never had this problem with IE. (Not that I dabble with History that much…)

I vote for trashing preferences too.