is the new IE6 preview any good?

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 11:45 AM

because i wanna try it but...i dont want it to be like windows media player 7 (i downgraded back to 6.4)

denniswrenn · Aug 16th, 2001, 11:48 AM

I've got IE6, and it's pretty good. It crashes every so often, but when it does it asks if you want to send the error to microsoft...

You can lock the toolbars so they don't get all out of order(like if you accidently double click one)... I like it a lot...

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 12:36 PM

i see. maybe ill try it..can you "downgrade"?

denniswrenn · Aug 16th, 2001, 12:40 PM

I don't think so....

**filburt1** · Aug 16th, 2001, 12:51 PM

Yes you can. But because the toolbars were locked for me, I can't move the Google toolbar anymore.

It's just permanently suck next to my menus.

denniswrenn · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:11 PM

You can unlock them...

**filburt1** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:24 PM

Not in IE5.5, which was on my system when I "upgraded" to IE6.

**kedaman** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:24 PM

IE6 has those mouse-over-image-popup-icons-click-save stuff that i partially hate, but i had some use of them.
Otherways no big changes - it crashes as often as IE5.5

**filburt1** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:26 PM

Yeah, it's not like I don't know how to right-click, MS...

**kedaman** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:42 PM

worse is that it just pops up, wihtout even clicking or anything

**kovan** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:44 PM

i think ms is making things WAYYYYYYY to friendly
kinda insults my intelligence

**filburt1** · Aug 16th, 2001, 01:47 PM

So some people are stupid.

**scsa20** · Aug 16th, 2001, 02:33 PM

Originally posted by kedaman
IE6 has those mouse-over-image-popup-icons-click-save stuff that i partially hate, but i had some use of them.
Otherways no big changes - it crashes as often as IE5.5

You can turn it off

**CiberTHuG** · Aug 16th, 2001, 03:26 PM

Originally posted by nabeels786
i see. maybe ill try it..can you "downgrade"?

As I understand it, you will be able to remove IE 6 from WinXP. I would hope that you would be able to uninstall IE 6b. 'Course, if you are Win2K, you can never remove IE or go below v5. And that, boys and girls, does suck much.

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 03:52 PM

ok cool. i think ill upgrade it 2nite then.

IE5.5 rarely crashes on my meh comp. cool

thx,
nabeel

**filburt1** · Aug 16th, 2001, 03:55 PM

I'd wait until it is out of beta. It's been in beta so long that it should be out soon (definitely by Windows XP release).

**JungleMan** · Aug 16th, 2001, 06:01 PM

it was still buggy last time i checked but once it's out of beta it's gonna kick ass, show those Mozilla guys who's boss

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 06:50 PM

well...

I feel brave

btw - it is uninstallable

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 07:35 PM

i just downloaded/installed 6...dont see too much of a difference..but its a little faster.

does the skinned interface come with XP?

**scsa20** · Aug 16th, 2001, 08:42 PM

don't know, but if you want the toolbar changed, go to http://www.hotbar.com

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 08:47 PM

trying to figure out the IEIK...

yah i used to have a hotbar. but i dont like it anymore. the IEIK is supposed to allow you to customize

**scsa20** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by nabeels786
trying to figure out the IEIK...

yah i used to have a hotbar. but i dont like it anymore. the IEIK is supposed to allow you to customize

never heared of it.

**jjortiz** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:04 PM

I have not installed the full version i had the beta and one of the big diffrences cannot disable cookies. Cannot delete them. Hmm wonder how microsoft got so smart. Second you have that smart tag thing. You will see a doulbe underline on certain words and that is for advertising and helping the ease of navigation. You can add your own. Oh and alot of old treeview javascript and menus do not work. hehe. I have to redo the entire intranet at work.

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:05 PM

woops, misspelled it. IEAK, Internet Explorer Administration Kit.

click here to goto IEAK homepage

i know its for distributing, but you can have it so it only works on your computer. you can customize IE alot with it (buttons, colors..etc)

-nabeel

**jjortiz** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:08 PM

I have played with IEAK. It's pretty cool, but you need a developer to work on it for a couple of weeks. So i gave up on it. It's not worth it.

**scsa20** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:10 PM

yeah, I heared of that, I used to had that installed before my computer crashed

**jjortiz** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:12 PM

Oh to answer your other question. scarcastic voice: yeah microsoft is going to make IE unistallable.

**nabeels786** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:27 PM

IEAK has been saying "checking files" for the last 20min. i think i broke it.

you can disable cookies and smart tags. i have the smart tags disabled.

to disable cookies:
tools-> internet options -> privacy -> advanced -> check "override automatic cookie handling"

and there you go.

the beta is uninstallable (check ur add/remove progs, and it says so on the download page for teh beta)

**jjortiz** · Aug 16th, 2001, 09:30 PM

I guess i look like an idiot. I did not see the cookies diable option.

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