Tabbed IE6 add-on???

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Bob Newman

On Microsoft's XP Homepage there is a link for:

Internet Explorer add-ons: Enjoy tabbed browsing and more

Boy, would this be great. When I follow it though I can't find the add-on,
only a Service Pack which make no reference to tabbed browsing. Where can I
find this add-on?
 
A

Alan Edwards

Further to my last response, I also see Microgarden Web Tools in
Browser Plug-ins with the description:

"Tabs for Internet Explorer are finally here! If you ever wanted to
use tabs before, but didn't want to load a custom browser or any
browser other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, you don't have to
wait any longer. Introducing Microgarden WebTools! The first, true,
Microsoft Internet Explorer add-in that gives you the power of tabs
with popup blocking capabilities!"

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html


In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, "Bob Newman"
 
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

Bob Newman said:
That's been around for a long time. Did MSoft buy them or something?

Bob

windowsmarketplace.com provides a listing of third party tools, i.e.,
programs NOT written by Microsoft. The listing is NOT carefully reviewed
and includes some junk and some that are downright dangerous.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
B

Bob Newman

I have used the browser Maxthon and have found some flaws myself but please
elaborate on "downright dangerous". I love IE6 as is but it would be very
nice if we could add tabbed browsing and a zoom like these other programs.

Bob
 
F

Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

Bob Newman said:
I have used the browser Maxthon and have found some flaws myself but
please elaborate on "downright dangerous". I love IE6 as is but it
would be very nice if we could add tabbed browsing and a zoom like
these other programs.

Bob

AFAIK, Maxthon is a good choice for tabbed browsing. At various times
spyware and such have been listed at the marketplace. An example being
newDOTnet. Some MVPs have been trying to help clear some of that out, but
frankly I don't have the time to go through all of the stuff there.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
J

Jim Byrd

Hi Bob - While I've never used it, the Microgarden add-on here,
http://www.microgarden.com/webtools/index.htm, is apparently OK for the
price. See here: http://www.microgarden-webtools.com-download.net/

As for zoom - you can get that now, for free, from MS:


It's called Web Accessories - you can get it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/previous/webaccess/ie5wa.asp

It works fine in IE6 except that you'll need to do an F5 Refresh on the
blank page that the Images List click brings up to finally get them.
Thorsten Gudera has created both German and English "corrected" Versions of
imglist.htm which fix this. You can contact him here:
Thorsten.GuderaATt-online.de (replace AT with @ sign). For Toggle Images
(which you'll find on your Links toolbar), remember that you'll have to
refresh after toggling to see the effects on the current page. (BTW, if you
place a shortcut to it on your Quick Launch toolbar or wherever, you can
also use it to prevent spam HTML emails from "calling home".)

Here's also a fix for "Copy Location" courtesy of a poster nicknamed Caveman
I've verified that this works fine for Win2kPro and should for any other OS
as well:

"Use Notepad to open GRABURL.HTM (found usually in WINDOWS\WEB), and edit as
shown below:

[FIND:]------------------------------------------------
document.all.location.value = win.document.location.href;
[REPLACE WITH:]----------------------------------------
document.all.location.value = win.location.href;
[END]

(so, the only thing to do is removing ".document" from the line)"


Be aware also that there is a bug in the Zoom functions. The following is a
(modified)
quote of a previous posting by Alan Edwards of a previous quote by Ron
Vernon which outlines the fix:


"I have not checked recently if the error has been corrected.
Without looking at your attachments, I assume you have made
adjustments like this old post by Ron Vernon MVP, which I made myself.
------quote
This is a bug in the web accessories.

To fix it, use Notepad to open ZOOMIN.HTM (found usually in
WINDOWS\WEB ),
and edit it to read both image dimensions before setting any of them:

old contents:
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

new contents (the 3rd line in the fragment above moved up):
....
h = parentwin.event.srcElement.height * 2;
w = parentwin.event.srcElement.width * 2;
parentwin.event.srcElement.height = h;
parentwin.event.srcElement.width = w;
....

Do the same for ZOOMOUT.HTM changing '*' to a '/'
..
-----end quote

....Alan

Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems"


I've attached corrected versions of zoomout.htm and zoomin.htm since
they're fairly small. (If you have a firewall, they may get re-named
extensions - just change back to .htm) You can just place them in
\Windows\Web if you chose.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



In
 
V

Vanguard

Bob Newman said:
On Microsoft's XP Homepage there is a link for:

Internet Explorer add-ons: Enjoy tabbed browsing and more

Boy, would this be great. When I follow it though I can't find the
add-on,
only a Service Pack which make no reference to tabbed browsing. Where
can I
find this add-on?


Well, MyIE2 (redubbed Maxthon at http://www.maxthon.com/) is *not* new.
It's been around for awhile; the original developer of MyIE stopped
working on it, MyIE2 got spawned, and now it has another name. Usually
it is compared to the Avant browser (http://www.avantbrowser.com/),
another overlay browser that uses IE for its core functionality while
adding some other features, like tabbing. I'm not quite sure why you
would endure the effort needed in training for an overlay browser rather
than just train for a different browser, like Firefox.

I still use IE, have tried Firefox, but if I was looking for a browser
that behaves differently than IE then it seems somewhat self-defeating
to just go with an overlay browser atop of IE. It's been over a year
since I compared MyIE (pre-2 version) and Avant and I would have gone
with Avant *if* I had felt a compelling urge for a tabbed SDI interface
(I don't remember now why I would have picked Avant over MyIE).

Since you can configure Windows XP's taskbar to stack multiple buttons
for several instances of the same application, you can get the effect of
tabbing by using the stacked taskbar buttons (but the windows themselves
are still separate). You configure the taskbar to group the buttons
(TweakUI for WinXP makes it easy to setup). It depends on whether you
like SDI (single document interface) or MDI (multiple document
interface) programs.
 
E

Eric Lawrence [MSFT]

Frank--

Please let me know which you consider dangerous and I'll see about getting
them removed.

--
Thanks,

Eric Lawrence
Program Manager
Internet Explorer Trust

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
 
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE

Eric Lawrence said:
Frank--

Please let me know which you consider dangerous and I'll see about
getting them removed.

Sorry, but I don't have time to go through the site. Besides, keeping track
of individual spyware and adware programs isn't my thing. I know about the
problems by reading the private MVP newsgroups.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
 
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Fuzzy Logic

Vanguard said:
Well, MyIE2 (redubbed Maxthon at http://www.maxthon.com/) is *not* new.
It's been around for awhile; the original developer of MyIE stopped
working on it, MyIE2 got spawned, and now it has another name. Usually
it is compared to the Avant browser (http://www.avantbrowser.com/),
another overlay browser that uses IE for its core functionality while
adding some other features, like tabbing. I'm not quite sure why you
would endure the effort needed in training for an overlay browser rather
than just train for a different browser, like Firefox.

I still use IE, have tried Firefox, but if I was looking for a browser
that behaves differently than IE then it seems somewhat self-defeating
to just go with an overlay browser atop of IE. It's been over a year
since I compared MyIE (pre-2 version) and Avant and I would have gone
with Avant *if* I had felt a compelling urge for a tabbed SDI interface
(I don't remember now why I would have picked Avant over MyIE).

Since you can configure Windows XP's taskbar to stack multiple buttons
for several instances of the same application, you can get the effect of
tabbing by using the stacked taskbar buttons (but the windows themselves
are still separate). You configure the taskbar to group the buttons
(TweakUI for WinXP makes it easy to setup). It depends on whether you
like SDI (single document interface) or MDI (multiple document
interface) programs.

I've looked closely at both Maxthon and Avant and for me I much prefer
Avant. I find it to be more stable and customizable than Maxthon. Feature
wise they are very similar.
 

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