[pchelpers] Re: Firefox tabs, IE impersonation, IEview plugin

Hi Ekhart,

Friday, October 29, 2004, 2:49:46 AM, you wrote:

EGlnl> Hi George

>> I went and got that but it doesn't fool some sites.

EGlnl> (Please skip next paragraph if you don't want to hear critical
EGlnl> information and comments about MS:)
EGlnl> Netscape). I guess they were caught off guard by the sudden profusion of
EGlnl> more modern browsers, but you'd think they would have added more new
EGlnl> features than a rudimentary popup blocker to IE in SP2 if they hadn't
EGlnl> encountered insurmountable security problems in IE that require

Supposedly, they recently reassembled the IE development team.

EGlnl> rewriting from scratch. As i've heard, apparently the reason they didn't
EGlnl> add tabbed browsing is that that would require a new Windows shell which
EGlnl> is not possible before Longhorn.

There are several IE-based tabbed browsers, so I have my doubts about
this.


EGlnl> Scratching the itch, this plugin adds menu items to the page context
EGlnl> menu, and the link context menu. Right-clicking a link now includes an
EGlnl> "Open link target in IE" menu item. Right-clicking elsewhere in the main
EGlnl> body of the page (not within an image, text box, etc.) gives "View this
EGlnl> page in IE."

EGlnl> In both cases, we try and track down the IE executable on your system,
EGlnl> and launch with the appropriate URL. Brain-dead simple, but I'm using it
EGlnl> daily.

Speaking of which, Firefix still has the slightly brain-dead
functionality for running third-party apps based upone the file type;
with IE, you can easily select from a list of programs known to have
been used with that file type.  With FF, you have to search for the
specific program, which is often not known.  This code appears to work
nearly-identically to Netscape Navigator.


>> I can't find the setting that makes Firefox use tabs instead of opening
>> a new window. The only tabs I get are when I click the button for making
>> bookmarks display as tabs but I thought that regular movement from page
>> to page created tabs too.

EGlnl> But maybe you were talking about what happens when you click a link in
EGlnl> another program? Then you can find help here:
EGlnl> http://texturizer.net/firefox/faq.html#newwindow

I don't know why this isn't the default or at least available
built-in; seems kinda pointless to support tabs, when new links
automatically open in a new window. I sometimes find myself manually
consolidating several windows into one.

--Scott.


-------list-services-below-----------
Regards, John Durham (list moderator) <http://modecideas.com/contact.html?sig>
Freelists login at http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi
List archives at http://www.freelists.org/archives/pchelpers
PC-HELPERS list subscribe/unsub at http://modecideas.com/discuss.htm?sig
Latest news live feeds at http://modecideas.com/indexhomenews.htm?sig
Good advice is like good paint- it only works if applied.

Other related posts: