Archive for August, 2005

Stupidest shit ever

Monday, August 1st, 2005

So my boss got a hold of the new IE 7 Beta, which has tabs, and I love tabs, which is why I use Firefox. So I install the copy, knowing full well that I’m installing a MS beta, but seriously, the major features of the program were buggy. My favorites pane would not expand, instead I had to use the sidebar, there were no configuration options for the tabs, and MS changed the hierarchy of the toolbars, and made them so you couldn’t use them, so the top line was address, and the bottom was file, edit, etc. It’s all just fucking stupid. But the kicker was the pop-up blocking. I have to use IE with the helpdesk software I’m implementing here in the office, so I go to use it, and click on a link that opens a pop up window (to search a solutions database). Only IE 7 blocks it with the yellow bar at the top of the screen. So i click on it, and add the server to the allowed sites. Click the link again, still blocked. Restart the browser, still blocked. Turn off the pop up blocking, still blocked, now right clicking on the blocked message it asks me if i want to turn pop-up blocking on. WHAT THE FUCK. Turn blocking down to low, so that it should allow everything. Still blocked. Ctrl+click, which should open the window no matter what, still blocked. So I go to uninstall IE7, and guess what, you can’t. So I rolled back my system (thank god for that, something MS did right), and it’s gone. Good riddance. It might end up being a good browser after another 5 or 6 betas, but as it stands, RUN AWAY!