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>So, you would rather see Internet Explorer use sidebar buttons?

Wouldn't really matter and it might help.
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>>I find it clumsy because I now have to hold my mouse over one of the tiny wee icons to find out what it does before I click on it.
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>I technically agree with you on this, it would be easier with large buttons and/or labels. I was just accepting of the way it was as it wasn't that big of deal for me to recall what the buttons were after a few times.
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I find I can't remember them at all and I've lost the handy (text) reminder of what they mean: one man's icon doesn't make sens to another, necessarily - plus I have a number of portable machines with non-mouse mice (if you know what I mean). The one I'm using now is a small square that you wiggle your finger across and trying to click on an icon the size of a match-head is allowing me to practice my Gaelic invectives and swear-words quite nicely.