Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

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re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

bacittup — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:21:53 GMT

Ok all that is JUST GREAT! but What the heck ahappened to my favorites center!?!?!? I cannot see it! I do not care for the expanding favorites bar acroos the top and want to continue using my center as before only I cannot read it! It ahs become so narrow( th drop down menu? field of favorites) that I cannot even tell what icon I'm pointing to and it ALWAYA opens a new window. IRRITATING!!! PLEASE HELP ME! o GPT STICL LOADING xp SVC PACK 3 THEN ie BETA 2 IWS NOW PERAMANANET FRO WHAT i GATHER.i JUST BUILT THIS PC SO i COULD USE xop AND DO MY COPORATE WORK @ HOME BUT NOW ...WHAT A FRIGGN MESS!

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

Ceinach — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:41:42 GMT

I like a number of the changes in this beta. I was also noticing that it took up about 400 MB of my memory when I ran it.

Is this normal for the IE8 beta to be using so much memory and will this requirement be reduced after the RTM build?

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

MDOC — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:48:26 GMT

Um, that is, when closing IE session, upon restarting another session, all you can do is open the last browsing session, which is one tab only. I'd like to re-open all that were open at the last session, not merely the last loaded page.

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

MDOC — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:32:20 GMT

MS is going in the right direction. I'd like to see the "Open Closed Tabs" in the New Tab expanded to the hilt. If I close a tab and forget about it, then I remember something and want to go back to it, I can't use this "Open Closed Tabs" feature if I've already closed the IE session. So instead of clearing these closed tabs at every IE session closing, clear them every 24 hours or so. Or better yet, make this event user configurable.

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

Photo1921a — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:29:01 GMT

Close but still not far enough. We still had more UI customization ability in IE 4,5,6 than in 7 and now 8. The address bar is still locked away from it brethren. Can't move the left and right arrows, can't get rid of the search bar if you don't want it. Basically Microsoft is still choosing for me and again all I am asking for is a "choice" I don't really understand why Microsoft could not give BACK the choice we always had. I'm not a programmer but I can't see why it can't be done. Brandon can it really not be done? Would it really hurt Microsoft to allow users a choice? This is the only reason why I use Firefox, this is the only reason why I don't use Vista on a regular basis. Yes I am passionate about this, because I really don't understand why Microsoft has taking that ability away and will not give it back. I went through the beta's of Vista and a lot of people pleaded with Microsoft not to lock down the UI but to no avail. Can anyone in Microsoft just say WHY?

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

DorianGraph — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:01:47 GMT

Being able to move the refresh/stop icons to the left was much needed and it looks quite good now too.

Now, could we pleasee be able to move the home icon up there as well and have it the same style as those two buttons? Or, is it possible already?

yert is right, one thing I sorely miss from Opera (My current primary browser, it used to be FF but I long ago stopped caring about it) is having all the shortcuts for search engines. I think I have Last.FM, Wikipedia, IMDB, etc all which I use rather regularly.

Als, I'd like to be able to remove the Favourites icon + text (Which is there even when you turn off the Favourites toolbar) and also the possibility of moving the favourites bar below the tab bar.

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

yert — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:04:42 GMT

I use a lot of differing browsers, and one thing I love about IE is that the menu (File, Edit, ...) is hidden by default now. It's much cleaner, as you should only (if you are me at least) really have to strips or bars: Navigation and Tabs.

Of course, I dislike the need to registry hack the UI when I want to change it, like with the search bar (I find this the most useless bar ever; Opera does it better, just type a letter or word then the search (i.e. "l search" for Live Search, or "kb search" for the MS KB articles).

I also like my icons small, and my UI aesthetically pleasing while easy to use. Luckily, most browsers are like this or easy to configure to be like this (for example, in IE I removed all the buttons that duplicate menu functions, except for Favorites and Settings). The point here is that a customizable UI will fit all your users, not just the majority.

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

cth11 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 22:45:26 GMT

Thanks for the unlock tip..totally didnt know that...It was the unused blue space above the tabs that was driving me crazy about IE7 and IE8..I am really liking the direction of IE8.

re: Customize IE8 Beta 2 to fit your needs

Master Devwi — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:41:29 GMT

Cool! Most of that I discovered from playing around with it, but I didn't know about moving the stop and refresh buttons (great for people not used to IE7/IE8) and I'd forgotten about the ability to resize the Search Bar.

Personally, I've decided to move the Command Bar to the top to save more room for tabs. Other than that, I like to keep it "normal."