Tabbed "browsing" in Windows Explorer anyone?

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Lars-Erik Østerud

In XP the "Windows Explorere" (file manager) has the same look as IE6.
I guess in Vista it will have the same look/style as IE7 (to bad :)

But one of the nice things about IE7 is the tabbed browsing.
That would be real nice to have in the "Windows Explorer" as well
(I often have 3-4 "Windows Explorers" open, a real mess :)

Is that possible in XP with IE7, or will it be in Vista?
Or will the "Windows Explorer" have no "tabbed browsing"
 
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Guest

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
In XP the "Windows Explorere" (file manager) has the same look as IE6.
I guess in Vista it will have the same look/style as IE7 (to bad :)

But one of the nice things about IE7 is the tabbed browsing.
That would be real nice to have in the "Windows Explorer" as well
(I often have 3-4 "Windows Explorers" open, a real mess :)

Is that possible in XP with IE7, or will it be in Vista?
Or will the "Windows Explorer" have no "tabbed browsing"

Not possible in xp.. vista will have it.. linux has had it for 6
years.

Flamer.
 
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Margrave

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
In XP the "Windows Explorere" (file manager) has the same look as IE6.
I guess in Vista it will have the same look/style as IE7 (to bad :)

But one of the nice things about IE7 is the tabbed browsing.
That would be real nice to have in the "Windows Explorer" as well
(I often have 3-4 "Windows Explorers" open, a real mess :)

Is that possible in XP with IE7, or will it be in Vista?
Or will the "Windows Explorer" have no "tabbed browsing"

Not possible in xp.. vista will have it.. linux has had it for 6
years.

Flamer.
 
M

Margrave

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
In XP the "Windows Explorere" (file manager) has the same look as IE6.
I guess in Vista it will have the same look/style as IE7 (to bad :)

But one of the nice things about IE7 is the tabbed browsing.
That would be real nice to have in the "Windows Explorer" as well
(I often have 3-4 "Windows Explorers" open, a real mess :)

Is that possible in XP with IE7, or will it be in Vista?
Or will the "Windows Explorer" have no "tabbed browsing"
Not possible in xp.. vista will have it.. linux has had it for 6
years.

Quite possible in XP. Just pick up one of the many Explorer substitutes ...
freeware.
 
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Lars-Erik Østerud

Bob said:
So use IE7. Click the address bar, plug in "C:" hit enter and have at it.

But do you get the "Explorer" tree view then? (have no IE7 right here
now). The whole point is to have the explorer-tree to the left AND
then files OR internet content to the right. Strange MS doesn't follw
this, it's a floating border between local and internet content :)
 
B

Bob I

Actually I don't use IE7. And I won't use Explorer. If it's going to
happen I would expect to see it in Vista, not XP.
 
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FeMaster

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
it.

But do you get the "Explorer" tree view then? (have no IE7 right here
now). The whole point is to have the explorer-tree to the left AND
then files OR internet content to the right. Strange MS doesn't follw
this, it's a floating border between local and internet content :)

Well, With IE6 I can call up the "folder" view, which I am assuming is what
you mean by the "tree" view. Open up IE (which ever you have now,) and
choose VIEW, EXPLORER BAR, FOLDERS. If this is what you want, then by
getting IE7 I would have to assume that you would have exactly what you are
looking for, "tree" view, and tabs...
 
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Lars-Erik Østerud

FeMaster said:
Well, With IE6 I can call up the "folder" view, which I am assuming is what
you mean by the "tree" view. Open up IE (which ever you have now,) and
choose VIEW, EXPLORER BAR, FOLDERS. If this is what you want, then by

Execpt that options isn't there in IE7 :-(
 
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FeMaster

Lars-Erik Østerud said:
Execpt that options isn't there in IE7 :-(

Sorry to hear that. Guess that MS was not thinking once again.

They seem to have removed a LOT of stuff with IE7. One of the things that I
use on a semi-often basis is the "view source" option, which is listed as
something that they removed in IE7. I'm sure that that little "feature"
required so much code that they just HAD to remove it.
 
J

Jack Ryan

View Source is still in my version of IE7.
Sorry to hear that. Guess that MS was not thinking once again.

They seem to have removed a LOT of stuff with IE7. One of the things that I
use on a semi-often basis is the "view source" option, which is listed as
something that they removed in IE7. I'm sure that that little "feature"
required so much code that they just HAD to remove it.
 
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FeMaster

Does it actually work? I was reading on the MS site about the changes and
whatnot, and came across that nit of info. Perhaps I am misunderstanding
what it states, but at this page:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740486.aspx , if you look down to the
section called, "Functionality Removed and Changed," I found this, "View
Source--The view-source protocol no longer works in Internet Explorer 7."

That is what lead me to believe that it was no longer part of IE...
 
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Robert Aldwinckle

FeMaster said:
Does it actually work? I was reading on the MS site about the changes and
whatnot, and came across that nit of info. Perhaps I am misunderstanding
what it states, but at this page:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740486.aspx , if you look down to the
section called, "Functionality Removed and Changed," I found this, "View
Source--The view-source protocol no longer works in Internet Explorer 7."

That is what lead me to believe that it was no longer part of IE...


In fact, you can see that it is still there. E.g. use Alt-V,c
Then switch to the TIF Viewer (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V)
and see view-source:http://...

Perhaps they should say the use of the protocol is now restricted
to internal use only? ; )


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FeMaster

Robert Aldwinckle said:
In fact, you can see that it is still there. E.g. use Alt-V,c
Then switch to the TIF Viewer (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V)
and see view-source:http://...

Perhaps they should say the use of the protocol is now restricted
to internal use only? ; )

I don't have IE7 installed at the moment, so I won't be able to test what
you have indicated above. Of course, I'm not exactly sure what is meant by
"internal use only." At a guess, I'd say that it can't be used on pages
retrieved from the 'net, and only on pages that are stored (or created)
locally on the HD?
 

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