Hmm, on the current Firefox (both 13 and 9) the search bar is separate from address bar.
To be honest, the absence of the search bar is the only noticeable difference between the IE9 and FF13 right now. I do use FF mostly, just out of the old habit (a few years back FF was way more secure). But from the point of view of casual everyday browsing there is no difference at all between them.
Well, in my case, it's a major problem. A lot of my emails and stuff, including PDF's, and other things (.docx files)come from people and places outside of our company, from people with obviously newer/up to date software. I can't do anything with them because they are too cheap to upgrade their junk. Of course, the main office people have newer, updated stuff.
As an example, I got an email about a new expediting company that a company will be using starting next week, yet it contained 2 .docx files, which I don't have the ability to open because i'm still on Office 2003.
Same with PDF's, some don't show right when opening because of the old software.
they won't get rid of my 2001 pc and upgrade it for something newer, including software which means in a lot of cases with the files like these, I have to email them to someone in the front office, so they can convert it and then email it back to me.
Pretty damn pathetic if you ask me.
Free reader for docx from Microsoft: Download: Word Viewer - Microsoft Download Center - Download Details
Free reader for PDF from Foxit: Better than Adobe PDF Reader and Acrobat
If you're on Windows 7 then WordPad can open .docx files.
There is one thing that IE5 and IE6 can do that I've not be able to figure out how to do in IE7 and above: redirect the favorites folder to a server so that dozens of computers all use the same favorites/folder/nesting structure.
I also use FF10 and Chrome18, but I like being able to manipulate (organize/zip/e-mail) favorites as files/folders and I launch scripts via IE's favorite bar. The full range of options are available to me via the regular OS context menu when I right-click on a favorite shortcut that points to one of my script files. I can even put the script file directly into the favorites bar folder and run it from the favorites bar of IE8. Can this be done with FF or Chrome?
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I wish it was that easy.
I have to bitch and complain that I have to get to certain trucking and customer websites so they will add it to the list of places I can go on their precious internet.
We don't have the ability to do anything on our own, much less install anything at all on the pc's.
That can be done via group policy or the registry. However, it's unsupported by Microsoft, because it puts all kinds of file locking load on the box hosting the data, the favorites folder (on the client) is manipulated on thread 0 meaning any network delays will cause IE to hang, and you must set permissions on the share to be effectively wide open which could cause corruption if two users write to the same favorite twice. It can be done though, if you're OK with the risks.
I am using HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar for IE6, but IE7 ignores it. IE7 does display the desired path in the links bar just like IE6 does, but IE7 does not display the actual links. Maybe someday I'll mess with these steps Redirect Favorites and Cookies folder using a Group Policy
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