Internet Explorer

[Martin Edwards]

I have come back to html after a long break. If I double click a file
it comes up in Firefox. Meanwhile the Windows 7 version of IE does not
seem to have file menus. How can I get a file up with IE to check that
it works with both?

 

[Jukka K. Korpela]

I have come back to html after a long break.

Html says "Welcome back!"

If I double click a file
it comes up in Firefox.

Great! But I hope you have new enough version - should be 3.6 now. Well,
3.6.15 to be exact.

Meanwhile the Windows 7 version of IE does
not seem to have file menus. How can I get a file up with IE to
check that it works with both?

Sufficiently new versions of IE have hidden the main menu by default - such
minimalism has been fashionable in browsers for some time. You can turn it
visible by pressing the Alt key. I mean a normal keypress (down and up), not
just keeping it pressed down. Then pressing Alt key again hides the menu
again, i.e. it's a toggle. There's a command for making the menu always
visible, but it's in the command menus... (View > Toolbars > Menu
toolbar, or something like that - I'm just back-translating, as my IE is in
Finnish)

 

[David Postill]

| I have come back to html after a long break. If I double click a file
| it comes up in Firefox. Meanwhile the Windows 7 version of IE does not
| seem to have file menus. How can I get a file up with IE to check that
| it works with both?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/support/faq.aspx

"To maximize website viewing, the File menu may be hidden by default. Most
menu options can be accessed from the toolbar. You can make the Menu Bar
(File, Edit, View, Etc.) appear by clicking the Tools menu, located near
the upper right of the screen, and then Toolbars and then Menu Bar."

Then File/ Open/ ...

 

[123Jim]

Doesn't dragging the file or the url (already located by FF) over
the open IE browser window fire it up in Windows?

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There's also the Firefox add-on called 'IE view' which adds a 'view this
page in IE' option to the on the context menu. (right click on webpage)

 

[Doug Miller]

There's a command for making the menu always
visible, but it's in the command menus... (View > Toolbars > Menu
toolbar, or something like that - I'm just back-translating, as my IE is in
Finnish)

Close enough. The English version is View > Toolbars > Menu Bar.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Doesn't dragging the file or the url (already located by FF) over
the open IE browser window fire it up in Windows?

Yes, as it does in all browsers EXCEPT Opera... (just one of the things
that I do not like about Opera)

Also to OP, you can right-click the HTML file and select "Open with"*
some installed toolbars and addons sometimes mess this up.

 

[dorayme]

Yes, as it does in all browsers EXCEPT Opera... (just one of the things
that I do not like about Opera)

It does in *Mac* Opera. Both url or the file itself (icon or
name) drag and drop onto main body of browser.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

It does in *Mac* Opera. Both url or the file itself (icon or
name) drag and drop onto main body of browser.

A url shortcut from the desktop, yes; url dragged from another browser's
address bar or a link from another browser, then no. It is the only
browser that won't.

 

[dorayme]

A url shortcut from the desktop, yes; url dragged from another browser's
address bar or a link from another browser, then no. It is the only
browser that won't.

A url dragged from another Mac browser's address bar opens in Mac
Opera.

 

[Martin Edwards]

| I have come back to html after a long break. If I double click a file
| it comes up in Firefox. Meanwhile the Windows 7 version of IE does not
| seem to have file menus. How can I get a file up with IE to check that
| it works with both?

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/support/faq.aspx

"To maximize website viewing, the File menu may be hidden by default. Most
menu options can be accessed from the toolbar. You can make the Menu Bar
(File, Edit, View, Etc.) appear by clicking the Tools menu, located near
the upper right of the screen, and then Toolbars and then Menu Bar."

Then File/ Open/ ...

Thanks to all who replied.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

A url dragged from another Mac browser's address bar opens in Mac
Opera.

Well they dropped the ball in Windows.

 

[Stubbo of Oz]

Yes, as it does in all browsers EXCEPT Opera... (just one of the things
that I do not like about Opera)
Snip ....................

I have Opera 10.62 in Windows 7 and it works for me.

 

[Stubbo of Oz]

There's also the Firefox add-on called 'IE view' which adds a 'view this
page in IE' option to the on the context menu. (right click on webpage)

Thanks for the info on IE View - just installed it and it is great!

 

[Stubbo of Oz]

I have Opera 10.62 in Windows 7 and it works for me.

Sorry - didn't see your 2nd post before I sent this - your right - it
doesn't work when dragging from anothe browser address bar.

 

[Martin Edwards]

Thanks to all who replied.

I used alt. I'll keep it that way.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

Sorry - didn't see your 2nd post before I sent this - your right - it
doesn't work when dragging from anothe browser address bar.

Or a link within the page in another browser...