Using Favorites (for a prior Netscape User)

[Guest]

I'm trying to switch from Netscape 7.2 to MSEx 6.0. There appear to be
limitations in Ex which were available (and highly used in NS). Please tell
me if these are actual limitations or if I'm missing something.

1. Clicking on a Favorite (Bookmark in NS) opens a box with only 3 boxes:
Name, URL, and Shortcut key. In NS, I had a comment box available, which I
used for User Id, Passwords (coded), telephone numbers, and comments re the
web site.

Nothing like this seems available in MSEx. ?????

2. In NS, when I had a page open and then went to Bookmarks to open another
page, I could right click on the Bookmark and one of my menu choices was
"Open page in a new window". I cannot find how to do this in MSEx -- right
clicking on a favorite does not offer that choice. Hence, I have to open a
new MSEx window first, then click on the favorite line. Pain and trouble!
What am I missing?

Thanks for help. LooLoo

 

[Alan Edwards]

There are many extensions for IE available.
I have "Open New Window" as a right-click option. Mine came with
CopyUrl from http://www.moonsoftware.com/freeware.asp along with Copy
Url, Copy Link and Copy Name.

....Alan

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


In microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser, LooLoo

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Alan for an answer to my Question #2. Would you (or anyone else)
have an answer for Question #1?

LooLoo

 

[Alan Edwards]

I don't have a good answer for #1, so I skipped it. I haven't used NS
since 3.0 so I am unfamiliar with the bookmarks but there is nothing
quite the same in IE. I remember missing it but that was many years
ago.

....Alan

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

....

2. In NS, when I had a page open and then went to Bookmarks to open another
page, I could right click on the Bookmark and one of my menu choices was
"Open page in a new window". I cannot find how to do this in MSEx -- right
clicking on a favorite does not offer that choice. Hence, I have to open a
new MSEx window first, then click on the favorite line. Pain and trouble!
What am I missing?

Which OS? Using Favorites from the Start menu
has the desired effect for me on NTx.

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[Gary Smith]

I don't have a good answer for #1, so I skipped it. I haven't used NS
since 3.0 so I am unfamiliar with the bookmarks but there is nothing
quite the same in IE. I remember missing it but that was many years
ago.

So far as I can tell, nothing like the Netscape comment facility is
available in IE.