Why is IE browser so schizophrenic?

[David Cook]

I start out in IE. It has its familiar icon on the upper left end of the
title bar, like all good apps do.

Then, I browse over to an FTP site. Or, onto the local disk.

Fine. Most browsers (except IE) do that, while keeping their
icon and menu option bar the same. (Adding things to the menu
option bar, etc, would be ok. But, REMOVING things, like
the 'HOME' icon that takes me to my home-page, is unacceptable.)

And, why in the hell would you change your identifying ICON?
(Were some of the programmer schizophrenic too?)
Don't do that!! Didn't you go to 'UI design school'?

Hey, I suppose it's YOUR application. So you can do what
you want. (You are Microsoft and we aren't.)

I suppose that next release, when I double-click on the title bar,
you could change the whole desktop to look like a Linux
KDE desktop, if you wanted to. But, WHY would you do that?

Sorry, I digressed a little there. So, why does IE do all that funky
stuff and not let us go directly to our home-page any more?
And, pretend that it isn't the IE anymore by changing its ICON?

Cheers...

Dave

 

[Jim Byrd]

Hi David - Well, I'm not totally sure I understand all of your issues,
but maybe I can help a little with one of them. If the following is the
case you're talking about:

enter C:\ in the address bar, get a LOCAL DISK (C - Microsoft Internet
Explorer title bar and have no Homepage icon shown

then that can be easily fixed. Just right click on the Standard Buttons
bar, click on customize, then move the Homepage icon over so as to be
visible. (You don't need to unlock the toolbars, BTW if you have space
available on the right end; otherwise unlock and move the Address Bar to
the right so as to display the icon, or otherwise arrange things as you
like). It'll stay thereafter.


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[David Cook]

Very good, Jim! I like it. At least, now I can get back 'home'.

(I still think that changing the icon, especially when you just navigate to
an FTP-site, is almost bizarre. Especially, when you later minimize
it, and what's left on the task-bar is not much more than the icon,
and it's not the icon that you expect...I sometimes mistake it
for the file-explorer, when it's really a masquerading IE.
But, UI-rules are made to be broken, I guess.)

Thanks for reminding me that I can tailor the button-bar...which I did.

Cheers...

Dave

 

[Jim Byrd]

YW, Dave

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