I have a copy of my research group’s web site on the hard drive of my laptop. We use it to show what we are doing when internet access is not easily available. The web site contains a number of short MPEG movies. When I click on the link to the movie, IE 6.0 beeps and up pops the little yellow bar saying “IE has restricted this file from showing active content.” Clearly my security settings are too high. So I bring up the “internet options” control, go to the “security” tab, and select “security level.” Sure enough, its set to “medium,” which includes prompting for downloading active content, which I suppose a movie player is. So I grab the slider and set it to “medium-low” which no longer requires prompting. And I get a pop-up box saying “the recommended level for this zone is medium, please set it to medium or higher.” And it resets the security level back to medium!
What the fuck? I’m logged in as an admisnistrator, its my damned content, I know its safe, how do I tell this #&$!ing program to display it without prompting?
And yes, I normaly use Firefox, but I still want to get IE to do what I want, if only because the little bastard needs to submit to me.