>>This 'universality' of the IE usage is getting to me!
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>>Whenever I do things involving IE - which is getting to be just about anything these days - things are left as at last usage when I start (it, for whatever) again.
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>>This in addition to inappropriate font settings from one usage (regular net access, say) to another (like reading MSDN) and things like that.
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>>So I figure that there MUST be some way to segregate these various usages of IE and I'd like to know how to do it.
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>>My latest was this situation:
>>I went through UT messages. After getting to the last one I went back to find the keynote thread and clicked on the keynote link. It started in a non-maximized window, as I wanted). Started watching it. As it was long I fiddled as I listened/watched. One thing I did was to close out the UT instance of IE (which had started maximized, as I had wanted).
>>When the video ended I closed its IE instance.
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>>When I started up this IE session to get at UT it came up non-maximized, WHICH I DIDN'T WANT!
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>>So, how do I get some control over this beast?!?!?!? I think it's only going to get worse as more and more applications use it for their output.
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>>Thanks
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>Opera is much more customizable and well-behaved. Unfortunately, it isn't compatible with all Web sites - some of which, including UT, seem to be written specifically for IE.
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>For the UT, I use IE. For most other sites, I use Opera. I also use Opera to show a report preview (text-mode) to the end-user of my application. Actually, I use the default browser, but I recommend that that be Opera.
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>Hilmar.

I'll have to look into Opera if I can find the time < s >

Thanks Hilmar