Bugzilla – Bug 3876
Slimserver and internet explorer windows
Last modified: 2006-08-05 21:49:02 UTC
When opening slimserver, it appears to grab whatever internet explorer window it wants. It would be most helpful (read less effing annoying) if it opened a new explorer window instead of navigating away from an already open window that's in use! It would also be helpful if there was an easy way to see the version of slimserver running - as a newbie I can't see any way to find out apart from looking at the name of the file I installed!
I believe that is a setting in your internet options.
This may be the IE setting you want. If it's too annoying, I'd recommend Firefox where new links can be set to open in a new tab. I assume IE7 has a similar feature. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=241911 Also, the current SlimServer version is displayed at the bottom of the Server Settings page.
Subject: RE: Slimserver and internet explorer windows Thanks for the email. As for using Firefox, the question I have is, why? Internet Explorer is bundled in Windows and works just fine for me! People may complain about IE and the existence of Firefox may spur Microsoft to improve it, but I see no point in installing another program that does exactly what IE does. As for tabbed window browsing, I'm one person that hates it. Now, no other application I have does what slimserver does - grabbing an apparently random IE window. It doesn't grab the window that's currently in use, I tried opening a new IE window then immediately going to slimserver. I've looked at all the internet explorer settings. I've even turned off pop-up blocking, and it makes no difference. I'll try installing slimserver on a brand new windows XP install and see what happens then. Thanks for the slimserver settings info, that was difficult to find. -----Original Message----- From: Slim Devices Bugzilla [mailto:bugs@bugs.slimdevices.com] Sent: 06 August 2006 05:49 To: bearuk@gmail.com Subject: [Bug 3876] Slimserver and internet explorer windows https://bugs-archive.lyrion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3876 andy@slimdevices.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |andy@slimdevices.com Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID ------- Comment #2 from andy@slimdevices.com 2006-08-05 21:49 ------- This may be the IE setting you want. If it's too annoying, I'd recommend Firefox where new links can be set to open in a new tab. I assume IE7 has a similar feature. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=241911 Also, the current SlimServer version is displayed at the bottom of the Server Settings page. ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter.