Internet Explorer, Beta 2, part II
Have had a few other thoughts…
- IE now allows multiple home pages. I don’t know if there is a limit on this, but there is a little drop down near the cute little house. Sort of like the “links” toolbar which is what I previously used to access frequent pages quickly. The links toolbar is still there, so I don’t think anyone can complain that there isn’t enough ways to access a page.
- Speaking of houses, the icons are still too big for my tastes, even on the “small icons” setting. Would be nice if there were a “mini” setting about half the size, for us with big monitors and good eyesight - at least with my glasses on. Lest anyone question, I’m running 1280 x 960 on a 21″ at 96dpi. For fun, try turning off the “small icon” setting. The home page icon looks like a mansion!
- Took me a while to find, but Microsoft cleverly hid what they now call the “Classic Toolbar”. That’s the thing that starts off with File | Edit |, etc… Frankly, I didn’t even notice it was missing for the first few hours. But you can recreate it, but once you do, you realize how much space it, and the aforementioned Links toolbar, wastes. The new home page dropdown and the new favorites panel are far more screen-friendly.
- Should have mentioned earlier, but this Beta 2 is apparently a “preview” of the Actual Beta 2, which hasn’t been released. Semantics, semantics.
- Also, stumbled across yet another nice feature that allows you to easily add all open tabs (webpages) to a single group (folder) in your favorites. Very nice and easy to use. Could see this being great for research - just leave open all the pages you might need for later and click that feature. Done.
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