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Archive for the ‘Internet Explorer’ Category

March 24th, 2008

IE Tab Extension for Firefox

I’m looking for the extension that I used to have installed in Firefox that would let me open a page in a tab, within Firefox, in the IE rendering engine.
I found the IE Tab extension by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), but the version currently available only works with Firefox v3.
I looked through the version […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

March 19th, 2008

Apple Pushing Safari On Me?

I just got notification from the Apple Software Update application that Safari is available from Apple for me to install.
I was expecting yet another update to iTunes and Quicktime. Not this time though.
So, when did Safari become available for Windows? Is this new?
There it is folks. Safari running on my Windows XP Pro laptop.
[…]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 16th, 2008

Microsoft Does An About Face on IE8 Decision

Have you heard the news? This new, friendlier Microsoft image seems to be really gaining ground. Now they’ve decided that IE8 will be more conformist to actual web standards. Awhile back I wrote about their initial idea to require developers to put in a tag to not use the default rendering for IE7 in […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 14th, 2008

It’s not always malware: How to fix the top 10 Internet Explorer issues

I just found this article and thought it was a really helpful review of things to look at and think about when something just doesn’t seem right with your Internet Explorer installation.
The article covers tips and tricks for the following problems:

“Page cannot be displayed” errors, Red x instead of pictures, view source not working
Editing […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 9th, 2008

SXSW Agenda Displays Running IE

I just found out from @davebost via twitter that the displays at SXSW are running Internet Explorer. Dave works for Microsoft and is attending SXSW in Austin this week.
Should we be surprised? Does everyone expect that an event like SXSW is a default Firefox user? Safari? Does it really matter? What do you think?
I’m actually […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

January 31st, 2008

Microsoft’s IE8 Provides Opt-In Standards Compliance for Developers

Just read an article by Matthew Magain on Sitepoint that’s talking about the new opt-in meta tag function being developed by Microsoft for release in IE8.
You may or may not have heard about IE8 passing the ACID2 test. Which I think should have been good news right? But it’s never enough for Microsoft, or […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

January 30th, 2008

I couldn’t live without….

The question was presented to me by my channel editor at b5 for an upcoming theme across the channel.
My immediate thought was that I couldn’t live without Windows Live Writer now. I’ve become so used to the application that my productivity around blogging and expressing my thoughts and creativity are enmeshed through-out the app. As […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 14th, 2007

Can’t Click Links in Outlook

All of a sudden I’ve started getting this error message in Outlook when I try to click on a link. I’ve looked through all of my settings and options and can’t find where to go to fix it. I’m fairly certain it’s a security setting somewhere.
I do a quick search in Google on […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

December 12th, 2007

Weird Firefox Issues

Okay everyone. I know this is a Microsoft blog, but I’ve jumped back to Firefox for a bit to test some things out since IE7 has been giving me some weird issues lately.
I go to fire up Firefox this evening though and my screen is looking weird. There’s a huge blank space of gray […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

December 2nd, 2007

Even Microsoft Help Uses Firefox

I’m not sure if the image being uses was populated dynamically or if the person at Microsoft that actually put together the help files is using Firefox instead of IE7.
I’m working through updating a few things on my computer and noticed that the screen capture image to help the user work through the steps […]

By Jason Bean -- 3 comments

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