<p>I finally got tired of being pestered by my computer, and downloaded the Service Pack which included an upgrade to IE9. For some reason, they’ve moved Favorites over to the right side. I can’t think why someone thought this was a good idea, except that it’s <em>different</em> from previous versions. And there’s no way to move it over to the left, where it should be. Were computer users clamoring for this change? Is there some reason it HAD to be done? Are we supposed to think that different is automatically better? Or do programmers just change things for the sake of changing them? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!! Sheesh.</p>
<p>First off, software is never perfect.</p>
<p>Second, they need job security. If you aren’t developing new programs, you’re losing ground on the rest of the software industry.</p>
<p>Can’t you just change it? In Firefox, you can put that stuff wherever you want to.</p>
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<p>That’s your problem right there… Internet Explorer…</p>
<p>You do realize that you can use Chrome, Firefox, Safari plus a slew of others…</p>
<p>Or make your own…</p>
<p>“Or make your own…”</p>
<p>Yeah, why would anybody use an off-the-shelf browser when it’s so easy to make your own? Slackers… </p>
<p>Same with clothes; you could go down to Target and buy a pair of Wranglers for $18…but it’s soooo much easier to plant a few cotton plants in your backyard, pick the cotton, comb it, dye it, weave it into denim, cut out the pieces, and sew them together. I also scoff at those who use store-bought zippers. I mean how hard is it to mine a little iron ore, rig up a mini blast furnace in your backyard, make a tiny amount of steel, pour it into little molds to make the teeth, and then attach them to a freakin’ strip of cotton?</p>
<p>I think if you use IE as opposed to Chrome or Firefox you have no right to complain. IE is meant to be annoying.</p>
<p>Also, I doubt it’s the programmers making these decisions.</p>
<p>Even Firefox changes things. The last update changed the location of the refresh button, drove my husband crazy and he finally had to ask his son where it was.</p>
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<p>Go into View -> Toolbars -> Customize and just drag the refresh button to wherever he wants it. I had the same issue - took ten seconds to fix.</p>
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<p>Your inability to code doesn’t mean it’s that hard you know…</p>
<p>Mozilla’s Chromeless Project</p>
<p><a href=“https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless[/url]”>https://github.com/mozilla/chromeless</a></p>
<p>I remember trying to build Firefox back in 2003 or 2004. It took me about 50 hours to get it to build. Most of the time-consuming stuff was getting the environment right. There was also the little matter of getting Microsoft Developer Studio which cost about $1,000 (I don’t think that they had the free versions back then). Basically the real developers didn’t want to be bothered with helping random people trying to build it so the hobbyist performance community helped themselves but the wide variety of configurations could make it hard to replicate a successful build.</p>
<p>Things are a lot better now in that the directions are better and Mozilla has decreased external dependencies on tools. They still have aspects of the build procedure that are a headache though. I wouldn’t expect a non-developer to set up the build environment, pull the source code and do a build.</p>
<p>OP - you’re not alone! You might be interested in this (haven’t tried it myself yet):</p>
<p>[Internet</a> Explorer 9 Favorites Center - Pin and Unpin to Left Side - Windows 7 Forums](<a href=“http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/150925-internet-explorer-9-favorites-center-pin-unpin-left-side.html]Internet”>http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/150925-internet-explorer-9-favorites-center-pin-unpin-left-side.html)</p>
<p>It’s not a question of wanting to fix it. He didn’t mind where they moved it to, he just couldn’t find it. Some of us don’t want to spend the time customizing the menu bar. We liked it just fine the way it was.</p>
<p>Before you impune programmers -</p>
<p>The people who design and develop an app like IE need to attempt to make the app meet the needs and appeal to a broad audience with a wide variety of opinions and preferences. This isn’t as easy as one might think and there’ll usually be some subset who aren’t that happy with the result. Like a poster above said, the designers/developers likely had some reason for doing what they did. I say ‘designers’ because it might not have been actual programmers who made the decision to move it or even people who know how to write code - this is a GUI design/layout decision that was likely determined by a user interface design person - especially in a large company like Microsoft.</p>
<p>One way to appeal to a wider audience is to make the appearance of teh app flexible - i.e. allow users to customize the look or sometimes function of it and move things like icons, move something from the right to the left, top to bottom, etc. </p>
<p>It looks like IE allows one to customize this area thanks to the link ‘scansmom’ provided.</p>
<p>I use IE, Chrome, and Firefox. I’m not in love with any of them nor do I hate any of them. The usage of any of them is more of a matter of just getting used to it than anything else IMO and when they come out with a new version it sometimes takes some getting used to.</p>
<p>The best and most user friend browser I ever experienced was Netscape. But unfortunately the anti-virus and internet security programs never really supported it so Netscape became a casualty of the brower wars in the late-2000s. I don’t know if you can get it today for Windows 7.</p>
<p>I’d follow the recomendations of others and check out Firefox. I’ve heard good and bad about Chrome.</p>
<p>Which Netscape? There have been many incarnations. Netscape open-sourced the suite in the late 1990s and a few people broke off the browser piece to become Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox. The email client got broken off too. The suite was renamed SeaMonkey. Netscape, then built a browser shell allowing you to pick the browser engine that you wanted (by page I think). The options were IE and probably Firefox. I don’t know what Netscape is doing these days but their engineers went over to Mozilla.</p>
<p>I was using the last major upgrade of Netscape until about 2007 on my Intel P4 XP. Loved it. Unfortunately, I later found that some programs like ‘Computer Associates Internet Security Suite’ didn’t fully support Netscape. Thus, I eventualy and reluctantly returned to IE.</p>
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<p>What the heck? It’s incredibly hard to build a browser. The only real way to build your “own” browser is to take entire existing of-the-shelf parts and put them together into a container. But that’s hardly creating your “own” browser (anymore than replacing your car engine is building your own car.)</p>
<p>Realistically, building a modern browser from scratch would require hundreds of experienced people and several years of time. His “inability to code” isn’t remotely relevant. I have no idea why you think this is some simple task.</p>
<p>I just looked it up - Netscape is built on IE 6 and Firefox 1.0. Anyone using Netscape today is taking a huge risk with security holes. No surprise that Anti-Malware companies aren’t supporting it.</p>
<p>As far as building browsers goes, the term “building” can be looked at as simply downloading the source code and building a kit. That’s still a non-trivial task, even for experienced developers.</p>
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<p>Thanks, BC, it did not even occur to me to look for a way to change, I just accepted the annoyance…baaa, I feel like a sheeple now.</p>
<p>I have to use IE for some websites with which I interact, downloads are so glitchy that I can only use IE, but they are definitely my last choice. I still find Chrome to be error prone and more likely to freeze up than Firefox.</p>
<p>Every browser has issues, advantages and disadvantages. I mainly use Firefox because I’ve done development work on it (yes, you are running some of my code when you use Firefox) but I also have to use Internet Explorer for some things at work and I use Chrome sometimes when I want to view different accounts in the same email service provider at the same time. I also use Safari on the iPad (not a lot of choice there), and the various browsers on Mac OS X and Linux.</p>