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why is "send page by email" greyed out in Internet Explorer 8?
Does anyone know why "send page by email" is greyed out in Internet Explorer 8?
This add-on is installed and enabled in IE 8, but it still will not work.
I normally use Firefox and even though I read a few bad reviews about it's “Email the Web” add-on, I went ahead and installed it because there is no alternative now for the newest update for Firefox because the "Send Page by Email" Firefox add-on isn't yet compatible with the newest 3.6.12 Firefox update... it appears that I'll have to install Safari to use the built-in send page by email feature.
Though Internet Explorer 8 comes with a "send page by email" add-on pre-installed, it does not seem work anymore... even though it’s "send page by email" add-on is enabled, the option is still grayed-out and inaccessible under “file”.
The “Email the Web” add-on for Firefox installs and has a nice interface button, as well as the file menu choice, but that’s where the good things end and the problems start. The initial interface is a bit cumbersome, then it takes me to a webpage to log-in to a Google account, and if I don’t already have a Google account, I have to jump through all the hoops to create one, then I must be logged in to that anytime I want to send a webpage by email, then instead of working with my default email app, I need to enter email addresses manually unless I have a gmail account to import addresses from... then after the 10 minutes that it takes to get through all that mess, the topper is that it tells me that it sent the webpage with “minimal formatting”... then the page shows up on an email all jacked up... even if I sent a YouTube page, it is messed up and sometimes doesn’t even show the screen where a video is supposed to play... ironic since the “Email the Web” add-on for Firefox is driven by Google who owns YouTube... I like Google, but this is a poor effort at trying to advertise one more way that just interferes with and destroys what used to be a simple built-in feature in Firefox and Internet Explorer.
I guess, just to send a webpage by email, I’ll need to install Safari on this PC... I like Firefox and how it has all the features that one can add, but for this simple common feature, it looks like Safari is the only way to go since Firefox has left it out and the feature doesn’t seem to work at all in Internet Explorer 8.
Does anyone know what the problem might be with IE 8's send page by email feature?
Thanks,
digiday