Browser Choice

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Except Vista or Windows 7.

Sorry, not correct. What PA Bear said is absolutely right. You can
install as many browsers as you want in any version of Windows, but
only one of them can be the default.

 

[Rob]

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Sorry, not correct. What PA Bear said is absolutely right. You can
install as many browsers as you want in any version of Windows, but
only one of them can be the default.

Per user.

 

[Frank Williams]

Thanks for that clue. For the record, if you've opted for it the
BrowserChoice registry key is located at:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

Opera far less buggy and FAST, Speed Dial is Great.


I have 2 major bugs that have not been Fixed, Will not Store Google searches
and drops Tabs all the Time, ie select a Tab load URL, select another Tab ,
second Tab replaces first Tab, second Tab is Empty, will happen on any Tab,
not just the first one, this Makes IE8 Totally useless.


Tried Firefox to slow and needs a lots of Plugins to work..

 

[Dan]

Opera far less buggy and FAST, Speed Dial is Great.


I have 2 major bugs that have not been Fixed, Will not Store Google
searches
and drops Tabs all the Time, ie select a Tab load URL, select another Tab
,
second Tab replaces first Tab, second Tab is Empty, will happen on any
Tab,
not just the first one, this Makes IE8 Totally useless.

I don't have either of those problems. I would suspect an add-on is causing
this for you. Do an IE reset and run in no-addons mode, does that fix it? If
so, MS have nothing to fix - it's not an IE bug, it's a problem with a 3rd
party add-on!

Do you have IE7Pro by any chance? If so, disable the option to only have one
IE process, that should fix the second problem - each tab runs it's own
process in IE8, having an add-on try to manage those processes can result in
exactly what you are seeing.

 

[Frank Williams]

I don't have either of those problems. I would suspect an add-on is causing
this for you. Do an IE reset and run in no-addons mode, does that fix it? If
so, MS have nothing to fix - it's not an IE bug, it's a problem with a 3rd
party add-on!

Do you have IE7Pro by any chance? If so, disable the option to only have one
IE process, that should fix the second problem - each tab runs it's own
process in IE8, having an add-on try to manage those processes can result in
exactly what you are seeing.

Running XP have no add-ons at all, tried a Reinstall of IE8 and selected no
add-ons as well, Plus tried all the Fixes listed here and elsware , still no
fix..

 

[Dan]

Running XP have no add-ons at all, tried a Reinstall of IE8 and selected
no
add-ons as well, Plus tried all the Fixes listed here and elsware , still
no
fix..

Reinstall does nothing, as it carries on with the settings already in the
registry. Did you perform a reset from the Advanced tab in Tools > Options?
This still doesn't always completely clear out references to external
applications (especially ones that monitor when they've disabled and then
re-enabled themselves), but it's a good start. Have you run IE8 in safe mode
with networking to see if does the same thing (I'd recommend being very
careful about which sites you visit though, and make sure you're behind a
NAT or similar device that blocks incoming connections as in safe mode your
anti-virus and firewall applications will be disabled.

And as to your claim of no add-ons at all, I find that hard to believe. It's
extremely rare for IE to have no add-ons installed - have you never been to
a site using Java or Flash? Do you any of the Windows Live applications
installed? What about anti-virus, or anti-malware? A lot of applications
inject hooks into IE and are very hard to disable, often the only way is to
remove the external application entirely.

Can you list the fixes you've tried? Without knowing which you have tried,
and which ones you'e missed, pointing you in the right direction will be
difficult.

I've never see anyone claim that IE closes their tabs before, what fix did
you find for that? As I mentioned, this is exactly what I'd expect an add-on
to do when trying to keep IE using a single process as IE8 uses a loosely
coupled process handler so a single process cleanup by an add-on or external
application will almost always result in tabs or IE itself being closed
automatically. IE7Pro is just one application that I know has an option to
do this (I used to use it with IE7 so that it would force all pages into a
single IE window rather than allowing links or other apps to open new IE
windows, but under IE8 caused all sorts of problems).

 

[Alejo FP]

I have used the msconfig command, and unchecked the item "Browserchoice".
Then i removed the icon on windows desktop. It worked for me, in windows XP
and in Windows 7

 

[LD55ZRA]

I have used the msconfig command, and unchecked the item "Browserchoice".
Then i removed the icon on windows desktop. It worked for me, in windows XP
and in Windows 7

You are a very cleaver boy and I wished some Microsoft Valuable Pigs had
some intelligence like yours to advice Microsoft Customers what to do
in situation like yours.

hth

 

[Kevin John Panzke]

Ed O'Brien wrote: > Thanks for that... I omitted to use that option
before I Restored. It would > sure save a lot of hassle. > > "six-h"
> > Ed, I
know how you feel!! I've just posted venting my spleen about the > >
same > > thing. lol > > Pity there arenot more helpful peeps out
there! > > I've found a way to disable it: - > > Go to "Run" type
"msconfig" select the startup tab and look for Microsoft > > entries.column and > > it > > will show a more helpfull label. > > Disable the
"Browser Choice" one ....and it's gone, or so I've found! > > > > "Ed
O'Brien" wrote: > > > >> Windows Vista Home Premium > >> > >> I used
to know but forget... Can someone tell me where Windows stores > >>
newly > >> installed updates? > >> > >> I want to uninstall the damned
browser choice notice now being presented > >> every time I boot. > >>

 

[Leonard Grey]

Easy decision: <plonk>