The Funny Browser
One of the biggest aggravation with Internet Explorer is its listing of URLs in the address bar history. I could allay this aggravation by using bookmarks, which I do, but I don’t want to make a lot of bookmarks that clutter up my UI or even my Bookmarks list. What I do instead is use Firefox as my main browser of choice.
The reason I use Firefox (amongst other reasons), and I notice Safari does this too, is that it lists the URL history according to the most “used” link. For example, say I visit somesite.com and I find out they have an Australian parallel site called somesite.com.au as well. So I visit both. Now while the Australian site is informative, I visit somesite.com more regularly. Firefox will always list this at the top when I type something like “som” and it shows the URL history. Not so with Internet Explorer, which works differently.
Internet Explorer doesn’t list the URLs according to most used. It seems to list it in a weird alphabetical organization. Rather than listing somesite.com at the top, it’ll list somesimte.com.au first, then any subpages within that site. Finally it’ll list somesite.com and whatever subpages. I’m under the assumption, where alphabetical organization is concerned, that somesite.com is supposed to be listed first, then somesite.com.au. And it can’t be that Internet Explorer is listing by frequent clicking because I do use somesite.com more than the .au version.
Aside from that, Internet Explorer is… well, still not fun to use. Even their Developer Toolbar doesn’t work (at least on my work laptop, which is where I need it the most). Oh well, that’s my rant for today!
… though the day is still young and I might have more.
