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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 5:15 PM

The Mystery of the Forgetful Browser Settings

A friend recently wrote to me, alarmed that the SmartScreen Filter feature was constantly turning off on his laptop with IE8. Despite manually re-enabling the feature using the Safety menu multiple times per hour, it was mysteriously and repeatedly turned
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Friday, August 21, 2009 11:50 PM

My browser is acting funny…

As browser users go, I’m pretty savvy. I’ve been on the IE team for nearly half a decade, and I’ve been writing browser extensions for twice as long. I read networking source code for entertainment, I spend my free time writing a web debugger , and I
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Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:29 PM

The Privacy Impact of Add-ons: New APIs for IE8

By default, when starting a new session using IE8's InPrivate Browsing feature, toolbars and Browser Helper Objects are disabled. This is done to help protect the user's privacy: many toolbars and extensions maintain their own navigation/search/etc history
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Friday, June 19, 2009 10:57 PM

WebOCs, popups, and the default browser

Applications which host the WebOC (Web Browser control) may choose to support popups and new windows by hooking the NewWindow3 event and returning in ppDisp a pointer to a new, hidden, non-navigated WebBrowser object or InternetExplorer object. If such
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Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:05 AM

Slowing Down: Disabling the Accelerator icon

We've had a few folks write to the IEBlog asking " How can I disable the little blue accelerator icon that appears when text is selected in a HTML page? " For end users, the answer is straightforward: Click Tools > Internet Options > Advanced ,
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