Sometimes IE won't start
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Tools / Internet Options / Programs Tick 'default browser' box at bottom. Exit all IE windows and/or restart, IE should soon notice it's not default browser and ask you whether you want to set it back.
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I've tried that and it hasn't worked. :(( --Colin Mackay--
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I've tried that and it hasn't worked. :(( --Colin Mackay--
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's You should definitely complain! If the are unable do make their websites working, how can you be sure that they can make a correct money transfer?:rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's You should definitely complain! If the are unable do make their websites working, how can you be sure that they can make a correct money transfer?:rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
My bank say it is part of their security - If I use FireBird to access my account it comes back with a message to the effect that because they have only security tested their website with IE (versions x to y) and Netscape (versions xx to yy) they are denying the request. My Stock Broker's web site does allow me to log in but some piece of code somewhere is refreshing the page too quickly so I hardly get any time to do anything. Also, I'm not all that impressed with their site because my RyanAir shares "appeared" to drop 98% when they (RyanAir) converted their share price from Sterling to Euros - I am told that it is only a problem with the valuation screen (as it expects all currencies to be in Sterling). On the subject of shares - My Egg PLC shares shot up 35% yesterday!!!! :-D Up 44p on the day, and now 9p above where I bought them. I was getting really depressed about them and almost sold them last week - howver the web-site I use goes down for maintenance from midnight to 08:00 each night so I wasn't able to action the trade. (Maybe their useless web-site isn't so bad after all) --Colin Mackay--
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My bank say it is part of their security - If I use FireBird to access my account it comes back with a message to the effect that because they have only security tested their website with IE (versions x to y) and Netscape (versions xx to yy) they are denying the request. My Stock Broker's web site does allow me to log in but some piece of code somewhere is refreshing the page too quickly so I hardly get any time to do anything. Also, I'm not all that impressed with their site because my RyanAir shares "appeared" to drop 98% when they (RyanAir) converted their share price from Sterling to Euros - I am told that it is only a problem with the valuation screen (as it expects all currencies to be in Sterling). On the subject of shares - My Egg PLC shares shot up 35% yesterday!!!! :-D Up 44p on the day, and now 9p above where I bought them. I was getting really depressed about them and almost sold them last week - howver the web-site I use goes down for maintenance from midnight to 08:00 each night so I wasn't able to action the trade. (Maybe their useless web-site isn't so bad after all) --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: [...]only security tested their website with IE [...] This is funny and certainly a omission on their side. My (German) Bank site does work well with Firebird (Mozilla 1.5) and SSL (under Linux) as well as with IE(6.0). So there is no principal impossibility with Mozilla, just unwillingness and/or incompetence. Colin Angus Mackay wrote: [...]when they converted their share price from Sterling to Euros [...] :eek:That is really scary - how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? They surely don't use internet time! :rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
Try Avant Browser - it is based on IE but has a lot of Firebird style features. Davy
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: [...]only security tested their website with IE [...] This is funny and certainly a omission on their side. My (German) Bank site does work well with Firebird (Mozilla 1.5) and SSL (under Linux) as well as with IE(6.0). So there is no principal impossibility with Mozilla, just unwillingness and/or incompetence. Colin Angus Mackay wrote: [...]when they converted their share price from Sterling to Euros [...] :eek:That is really scary - how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? They surely don't use internet time! :rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
jhwurmbach wrote: how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? Well, it is an English financial institution and according to some crazy woman in Essex (just outside London) who was interviewed a couple of years ago about the Euro said that it was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :wtf: What!??! --Colin Mackay--
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jhwurmbach wrote: how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? Well, it is an English financial institution and according to some crazy woman in Essex (just outside London) who was interviewed a couple of years ago about the Euro said that it was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :wtf: What!??! --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Euro [...] was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :sigh: Oh yes, that seems logical. Not. :doh: And I thought germany was bad on education.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Euro [...] was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :sigh: Oh yes, that seems logical. Not. :doh: And I thought germany was bad on education.
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
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jhwurmbach wrote: how can you trust a financial institution that gets surprised by the coming of the euro? Well, it is an English financial institution and according to some crazy woman in Essex (just outside London) who was interviewed a couple of years ago about the Euro said that it was bad becuase if it was introduced her children would no longer be able to count! :wtf: What!??! --Colin Mackay--
I have vague memories of similar arguments being raised when Australia moved from '12 pence makes a shilling and 20 shillings make a pound' in 1966. I suspect these arguments were raised by the publishers of those little pocket references we used to have that gave us a conversion from '1 guinea three and tuppence' to whatever that meant in pounds shillings and pence*. As an interesting aside, Australia's conversion to decimal currency was accompanied by a storm in a teapot. The Liberal party (the name is a misnomer) wanted to call the new currency the Royal. Labour, on the other hand, wanted to call it the Jumbuck. Thankfully a compromise was found. It became the Dollar. Can you imagine pulling up at the local petrol station and asking for 20 Royals worth? Or asking for 2 jumbucks of chips? It just doesn't work :) *For the record, 1 guinea three and tuppence is 290 pence, or 1 pound 4 shillings and tuppence. Heh, I'm old enough to recall seeing an Australian Penny (it was actually Victorian colonial currency) with Queen Victoria on the heads side. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Sterling converted to decimal in 1971 It was this late? I still remember a lot of shilling coins to be used in britain, but I alway thought the conversion was sometime pre-WWI. Wow. Colin Angus Mackay wrote: simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand As you can use banking cards, there is no need to count money anyway!:rolleyes:
Who is 'General Failure'? And why is he reading my harddisk?!?
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
I read somewhere that a fix for the link-in-email not working properly is to run
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
This might fix the other problems too.
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I have vague memories of similar arguments being raised when Australia moved from '12 pence makes a shilling and 20 shillings make a pound' in 1966. I suspect these arguments were raised by the publishers of those little pocket references we used to have that gave us a conversion from '1 guinea three and tuppence' to whatever that meant in pounds shillings and pence*. As an interesting aside, Australia's conversion to decimal currency was accompanied by a storm in a teapot. The Liberal party (the name is a misnomer) wanted to call the new currency the Royal. Labour, on the other hand, wanted to call it the Jumbuck. Thankfully a compromise was found. It became the Dollar. Can you imagine pulling up at the local petrol station and asking for 20 Royals worth? Or asking for 2 jumbucks of chips? It just doesn't work :) *For the record, 1 guinea three and tuppence is 290 pence, or 1 pound 4 shillings and tuppence. Heh, I'm old enough to recall seeing an Australian Penny (it was actually Victorian colonial currency) with Queen Victoria on the heads side. Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
jumbuck doesn't sound too bad - although it does kind of sound like a male marsupial(sp?) --Colin Mackay--
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Hello, For a while I tried out Mozzilla Firebird and then I decided that I still prefered IE (even without those tabbed browser windows - which were really great, but too much didn't work properly [like my bank's website, my stock broker's website and CodeProject did funny things too]) I have now uninstalled FireBird and I find that although I can start IE from the start menu the links in emails no longer work, the Google Bar doesn't work. There is no error message, I just click the link and nothing happens. :( Does anyone know the setting(s) I need to check to get this to work again? :-D - I am getting irritated. --Colin Mackay--
I had this happen on my system the other day. Turns out it wasn't a browser setting, but some sort of browser hijack. I had an older version of McAfee with the latest virus definitions, as well as Ad-Aware, but it was still giving me problems. So I purchased the McAffee Internet Suite that includes the SpamKiller, AntiVirus, and Privacy Center and it found all of these trojans on my system. McAfee was able to clean/delete these files and my Internet Explorer started working again. Give it a try. Regards, Brigg Thorp Software Engineer Timex Corporation
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jumbuck doesn't sound too bad - although it does kind of sound like a male marsupial(sp?) --Colin Mackay--
Colin Angus Mackay wrote: marsupial(sp?) Correct! :) Colin Angus Mackay wrote: jumbuck doesn't sound too bad It's colonial era slang for a :baaaa!: Rob Manderson http://www.mindprobes.net **Paul Watson wrote:**What sense would you most dislike loosing? Ian Darling replied. Telepathy Then I'd no longer be able to find out everyones dirty little secrets The Lounge, December 4 2003
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Thanks lauren, :cool: that worked perfectly! :-D :-D :-D --Colin Mackay--
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Historically I think some people used similar arguments when Sterling converted to decimal in 1971. The pound used to consist of 20 schillings, a schilling was 12 pennies and a penny was 4 farthings. So a pound was 240 pennies or 960 farthings. And she's complaining that if the currency converted to the Euro her kids would have difficulty! Obviously, her parents bred stupid children (e.g. her) and she is in the process of breeding even stupider children such that a simple currency like the Euro becomes so difficult to understand. --Colin Mackay--
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What do I know? I though "Sch" was right because it was old-fashioned (for the English language). You know "olde Englisch" style. --Colin Mackay--