Internet Explorer 8 introduced a number of features, including developer tools, improved standards compliance, private browsing, and tab grouping.
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Cannot browse external website with IE8 but still can with Firefox
Yesterday at my workplace something happened that meant that I could no longer visit any sites apart from from those within the company Intranet with IE8 any more. This also applies to Chrome, which ...
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Setup auto login for web application on HP Thin Client
I wrote a .NET web application that is accessed over the internet via a number of different clients.
Desktop browsers, iPads, but also via some HP t5570 "thin client" PC's.
The web application ...
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How can i use Internet Explorer's SearchUrl shortcut (in the address bar)?
Internet Explorer has long had a very useful "hidden feature": a shortcut for quick searches from the address bar, allowing you to use any number of websites as search providers (as described in this ...
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What are the advantages of upgrading Internet Explorer if you don't use it?
I don't open Internet Explorer, but I think its code maybe is used in other Windows features, such as desktop gadgets. Will I benefit from upgrading IE8 to IE9 even if I don't use it? Will Windows 7 ...
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internet Explorer 8 manage addon pop disabling
How can I prevent "manage add-on pop up" coming up every time I start IE8. I tried following procedures and nothing helped.
Reset IE8 and reinstalled IE8 completely.
Disabled all add-on.
Is there ...
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Why does internet explorer drop connection when downloading javascript files?
I am accessing my website over a WAN link (using a WAN emulator) with a 300ms latency. When IE8 is downloading a particular JS file (463 KB gzipped) it will suddenly close the connection. I observed ...
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Hide tabs for single tab in IE8
I've serached the options menus, and read this question about disabling tabbed browsing, but that's not what I want to do.
When there is only 1 tab open in IE8, it still shows as a tab, instead of ...
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Temporarily Disable AVG Antivirus [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I temporarily turn off AVG Antivirus?
I want to install Dragon Naturally Speaking, Speech Recognition Software. It says I have to diable my Antivirus before I can ...
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Preview a printed page IE 8
I'm trying to print part of a webpage. To begin with, when I try printing this, (from IE 8), only page one printes, without anything but the header.
To get around this issue, I tried printing ...
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What is wrong with my Internet Explorer?
I have a brand new laptop, Intel Core i5 CPU, 8 GB ram, running 64-bit Windows 7. It came with IE 9, which locked up 50% of the time.
I eliminated Silverlight, thinking that could cause some ...
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IE8 wont display .PNG images
I really don't know how the user managed to do this but for some reason .PNG images are no longer working in IE8.
When viewing a page that has .PNG images on it they are just displayed as a little ...
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dashes print as foreign characters when printing a sent e-mail from Windows Live Mail 2011
When printing a sent e-mail from Windows Live Mail 2011, dashes appear OK on the screen but print as a series of foreign characters. How do I fix this?
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Java works under Firefox but not under Internet Explorer
Java works under Firefox and Chrome but not under IE.
Here's what I tried (the advice normally given on forums):
Java applet activated in tools -> internet options -> security tab -> personnalise ...
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Can I tell IE9 to launch with the IE8 or IE7 rendering engine
I'm setting up a testing machine that needs to launch multiple copies of IE when the machine boots, because the browser will be running automated tests. I know IE9 can render IE7 and IE8 but is there ...
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Can I prevent Internet Explorer 8 from running scripts until the page is loaded?
When trying to veiw a number of different websites in IE8, I get the following error message:
HTML Parsing Error: Unable to modify the parent container element
before the child ...
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Can't open Internet Explorer after upgrading to IE7 or IE8
So, I've got a client who can't open Internet Explorer after upgrading from IE6. The symptoms are hard to diagnose as there is no error message that pops-up nor are there any error messages in the ...
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What is a causing dramatic slow down for a Web App on some computers?
We are looking at rolling out a new GIS web app (served up from servers on our network) but we are having issues with the apps speed on certain PCs.
In our testing we identified two physically ...
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Internet Explorer 8 suspended and debug command line options
I have Internet Explorer 8 set as my default browser and whenever I start my web application in Visual Studio 2010 with debugging it starts Internet Explorer 8 with the following command line ...
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Internet Explorer embedded PDF and Adobe X
I am trying to access this page from IE 8 and all I am getting is an grey block. The Adobe Reader version that I use is Adobe X (Version 10.1.2). How do I fix this issue? This works fine in FF and ...
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Some CSS not working correctly when using an alias to enter website
I have built an intranet for my company, but when I access the site using an alias (DrewNett) so of the styling in IE is incorrect. It's only in IE, and the source is exactly the same and when I go do ...
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log into unix server from windows
I want to log into remote UNIX server from windows through batch file or some script. I have a username and password for that srever. i have to execute the script in unix server with inputs from the ...
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Inprivate filtering in IE disables itself
I recentl discovered the built-in ad blocker in IE8, called inprivate filtering. It however disables itself on every IE start. How to enable it permanently?
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IE 8 blocks Google as “unsafe”
So, out of the blue, I open up Internet Explorer to get my iGoogle page. Instead, I get a blood red background with a white rounded box quote "This website has been reported as unsafe - ...
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Firefox does not play .AVI video but Internet Explorer does
I have a new PC running Windows 7 and Office 2010. My default browser is Firefox. I also have a website that was produced entirely in-house and is hosted by one.com (genesiswatchmaking.co.uk).
On the ...
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Printing from IE8 Shrink-To-Fit Strange Behavior
Everything works fine in our testing environments. We have "Shrink-to-fit" enabled on the print preferences to avoid things from running off the edge of the screen. At a handful of customer ...
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Internet Explorer 8 crashing when web application page is loading [closed]
I recently encountered a problem with Internet Explorer 8. When I try to access a page from my web application, sometimes, the 'Internet Explorer has stopped working' popup appears.
The web page has a ...
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Shortcut for maximizing IE 8 windows?
My IE pages never open at maximum and having to click the "Max" button on 60 windows is hand-weary. Any shortcut to maximizing? Also, if the computer crashes and I resume the session every window ...
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Simplest technique to collect text from websites into a program/single document?
I'm having trouble finding an efficient way to gather info I find while researching a particular topic on the web. First, I used to hightlight pieces of information and paste into Word but that ...
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Software to easily organize IE 8 favourites
I have about a hundred links to sort into various folders in Internet Explorer 8 but dragging and dropping each one is time-consuming and is bad for my RSI.
Is there a way to select links not in ...
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is there a way or program to load a set of websites in IE 8 at the same time?
I open the same 20 sites daily from Favourites but I'm looking for a way to load all 10 or 20 sites sites with one or two clicks. Currently, I have all of them in a folder and I choose "open in tab ...
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Internet Explorer locks up from desktop shortcut
What would be causing Internet Explorer to lock up and not display the webpage linked to a desktop shortcut?
For example, on this pc having trouble, I open IE and go to Google then File>Send>Shortcut ...
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Pinned Websites with Windows7 / IE8
Internet Explorer 9 introduced the feature of pinned Websites (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/pin-a-website-to-your-taskbar)
Is there any possibility to have the same effect with IE8?
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Why can I access a URL from Chrome but not with IE8 on the same PC?
I'm trying to access a URL from my PC. Using Chrome and Firefox it works. Using IE8 and Safari it fails. In IE I get the standard message "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage".
Both ...
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Keyboard shortcut for adding the current webpage to Favourites in IE8?
What is quickest keyboard shortcut to add a page to your favourites, using Internet Explorer 8?
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what does 'cumulative' mean in regard to IE8 updates?
For example if I apply this update - do this mean that it is not needed to apply any other update for IE8 with date earlier than 8/8/2011?
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IE8 is not supported on this operating system
I am using vista. I had IE7 installed on it. Few months ago, I upgraded it to IE9 because I needed it to test few things on it.
As now I am done with IE9, y'day I decided to remove it. It wasn't so ...
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GET request in Internet explorer
I am trying to test REST service. When I am trying to access this REST service, the default response is in XML format. Now I want to change this response to plain text.
I am able to this in Firefox ...
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Is there a way to get larger buttons on the menu bar in Internet Explorer 9?
It seems the hip new design for browsers since Google released Chrome is to minimize the browser's chrome in any way possible, usually including making the buttons tiny as possible.
The size of the ...
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Is there a way to rearrange tabs once they are open in IE 8?
Tabs I saved together in Favourites opened up in the wrong order. How do I move them to the order I want? Also, is it possible to do this task with a keyboard only? Or, is there a program that loads ...
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Is there a way to force-close a single tab instead of the whole webpage with multiple open tabs in IE 8?
Internet Explorer 8 freezes on me a lot and I'm tired of reloading the ten tabs I have open instead of just closing and re-opening the one tab that froze. I can't use Task Manager because it closes ...
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How to add Google as search engine in Internet Explorer 8
I don't have Google listed among available search engines.
Search for "Google" in the IE Gallery finds nothing.
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IE 8 + cache clearing… IE8 will not load newer versions of a .jpg file
I have put
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="120"><!-- Should update every 120 seconds-->
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache"><!-- prevent caching -->
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JS fails to download in IE 8 only
IE 8 on Windows 7 is failing to download a JS file, IE 9, Firefox and Chrome are unaffected.
It can be replicated on several PCs using IE 8. I have checked permissions on the IIS hosting the site.
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Internet Explorer not redirecting HTTP to HTTPS to a specific user
One of our users is trying to access a site that automatically re-directs the HTTP to a HTTPS domain, but it's not happening for her. She just gets a page cannot be displayed. However, if I "run as" ...
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Website Not Displaying Correctly
I have a client that has Internet Explorer 8 installed. There are some websites that are not displaying correctly, they are coming up with text only. Normally when this has come up, clearing the ...
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Why does IE8 show up as multiple processes in Task Manager?
I'm using IE8 on WinXP-SP3, and when I run IE, there are quite a few iexplore.exe entries in the TaskMgr Process List, even when I am not using multiple tabs.
I am running this page in one tab ...
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How to download Flash videos in Internet Explorer 8?
I want to download videos which I played in my Internet Explorer.
Is there any extension or add-on like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox has? Or any other procedure?
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Prevent Internet Explorer 8 from exiting when closing the last tab
Firefox doesn't exit when I close the last tab, just by doing some customization in about:config. But now, my company has to work with some website that only works well on Internet Explorer. I ...
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Citrix. Unsigned Active-X doesnt' work in IE 8
I have unsigned Active-X and web page that contains that. I managed to open the web page in IE 8 on dozen of workstations sucessfully after playing with IE 8 security settings. Active-X works fine.
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Windows 7 crashes with Nvidia 9800 GTX and Flash
I have an Intel Quad Core Workstation that I used to use for high end games and Hyper-V servers. It has an Nvidia 9800 GTX graphics card. (Driver version 280.26) The workstation has 8GB of RAM. It ...
