<p>I’m sorry… Let me get super precise so you don’t “misunderstand.”</p>
<p>Design your own UI and throw it on top of pre-existing code.</p>
<p>It’s not really that hard. Well, as opposed to the work we did porting Android to our old HD2 phones that are intended to run Windows Mobile.</p>
<p>Since you didn’t pick up what I implied I’ll explain myself. There are tons of browsers and each one has tons of extensions. You can complain about one, try a new one, search the extensions or build your own.</p>
<p>Yes it is. In general, you should be able to do most common things on a browser without having to refer to the documentation.</p>
<p>But you’re changing the topic from building a browser back to moving a toolbar.</p>
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<p>The expression anecdotal evidence refers to evidence from anecdotes. Because of the small sample, there is a larger chance that it may be true but unreliable due to cherry-picked or otherwise unrepresentative of typical cases.[1][2]</p>
<p>Also, anecdotal evidence can be inaccurate, sometimes based on anecdotes, second-hand accounts of events or hearsay.[1]</p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence, which may itself be true and verifiable, can be used to deduce a conclusion which does not follow from it, usually by generalising from an insufficient amount of evidence. For example “my grandfather smoked like a chimney and died healthy in a car crash at the age of 99” does not disprove the proposition that “smoking markedly increases the probability of cancer and heart disease at a relatively early age”. While the evidence is true, it does not warrant the conclusion made from it.</p>
<p>Conclusions made from anecdotal evidence might not be untrue, but they are unreliable because they don’t follow from the evidence and might easily be incorrect.</p>
<p>You can also take a generalization and then search for anecdotal evidence that “confirms” it. For example “Yogurt prolongs life. I didn’t believe it, but then I heard that a man in a mountain village who ate only yogurt lived to 120.”</p>
<p>The term is often used in contrast to scientific evidence, such as evidence-based medicine, which are types of formal accounts. Some anecdotal evidence does not qualify as scientific evidence because its nature prevents it from being investigated using the scientific method. Misuse of anecdotal evidence is a logical fallacy and is sometimes informally referred to as the “person who” fallacy (“I know a person who…”; “I know of a case where…” etc. Compare with hasty generalization). Anecdotal evidence is not necessarily representative of a “typical” experience; statistical evidence can more accurately determine how typical something is.</p>
<p>Since I actually work as part of a development team, it is unfair to blame programmers when they seem to change things in a way you don’t like. IE isn’t written by a group of hackers having a good time, at places like Microsoft they take basically what the product managers and business analysts tell them to do. Take it from me, places like Microsoft have huge teams of BA’s and product people and all kinds of people we won’t talk about, who spend all their time figuring out what people want (or what they think they want). Now there are arguments to be made about sloppy programming and bugs (though those generally have business components, too), but design like this is mostly what someone in marketing or ‘product management’ decides is the next cats meow…and all one has to do is look at New Coke, The Cadillac Cimarron or the HP Tablet to see bad design at its worst.</p>
<p>It’s a temporary fix. As soon as you close favorites, it moves back to the right. So if you want it on the left, you have to leave it open all the time. </p>
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<p>Thanks for the advice, Mr. Charming. I did google before I started this thread, and found plenty of frustrated users and no solution. That’s why I posted.</p>
<p>I like IE9, even if more computer savvy H and S don’t. Here’s a tip for those of us who like things as simple as possible. You can right click on the upper right corner gear symbol for “tools”, check “menu bar” and “lock the toolbars” to get a line running across the top of the screen that includes the word “favorites”. This gives you your list near the left side. I dislike being forced to add the meanings of icons to my repetoire- sometimes words are so much easier on the brain (the alphabet was invented to get rid of pictographs, after all).</p>
<p>IE9 is supposed to be the most secure browser right now thanks to its sandboxing feature. I believe that the other browsers will eventually add this.</p>
<p>Back in 2002 or so I was looking for a browser with programmable features. I experimented with Bookmarklets (Javascript programs to perform small functions) but I tried out Crazy Browser which was a program that ran IE and allowed you to customize toolbars, layout and I believe that it provided tabs (back when tabs were rare). The program is still in development. I don’t know whether or not IE 9 is supported. There might be other browser encapsulation products out there which allow you to customize IE to a level that you can’t do with the base browser.</p>
<p>The reason that I like Firefox is that it is portable and open source. I work on a lot of different platforms and it runs on most of them.</p>
<p>I went to from Firefox to Chrome then to back to Firefox again. Chrome’s “waiting for cache” annoyance became way too much. And Google mysteriously refused to even address the problem. </p>
<p>So I grew suspicious of that intentional glitch.</p>
<p>I’ve been a longtime Firefox user but I became annoyed with the long freezes and load time I’d been experiencing and recently shifted to Chrome. I find Chrome to be much faster and steadier. Go figure…</p>
<p>If you don’t like the browser, then use a different one. No one is stopping you from changing it. Just because you don’t like something about it doesn’t mean you should take it out on the developers.</p>
<p>My mistake. Internet Explorer 7 implemented the sandbox:</p>
<p>On Windows Vista, Internet Explorer operates in a special “Protected Mode”, that runs the browser in a security sandbox that has no WRITE access to the rest of the operating system or file system. When running in Protected Mode, IE7 is a low integrity process; it cannot gain write access to files and registry keys outside of the low-integrity portions of a user’s profile. This feature aims to mitigate problems whereby newly-discovered flaws in the browser (or in Add-Ons hosted inside it) allowed hackers to subversively install software on the user’s computer (typically spyware).</p>
<p>– Wikipedia article on Internet Explorer 7</p>
<p>According to the Wikipedia article, the improvements were in the 7.0 RC1 release that came out on August 24, 2006.</p>