I have a pet peeve about IE that has been a constant annoyance for years.

I have google set as my home page, as that is the site I most commonly go to
on the web and this is fantastic, the problem is that sometimes I open IE
wanting to visit a specific other site. When I do this I open it and
instictively start typing on the address bar.

IE then decides that my typing is in fact much less important than the
pre-set home-page, so halfway through my typing it replaces whatever I typed
with the homepage, after which the rest of my typing is appended to this
address to form a new invalid address. When I hit enter I end up with a error
message and an unusable URL in the adrress bar and I have to do it all over
again.

This is a general issue with the Microsoft Windows API I find extremely
annoying. Is it not possible to start a timer when I hit a key, and then
prevent the window I am typing in from loosing focus for half a second or 750
milliseconds after my last keypress?

After all, when I am typing something I am fairly busy with a specific
action that I do not really want interrupted.

My favourite peeve is where I am typing a word such as "Accessory" in word
and in mid-word a popup appears notifying me of an error and asking me if I
want to delete the document I was downloading (conviniently "y" shortcut, or
keep it - (the "n" shortcut). With impecable timing Windows will pop up the
question as I am pressing the "Y" in "Accessory" and I will inadvertantly
delete something I never intended to ... How darn annoying ...

Please, pretty please - see if you can get your guys to alter this annoying
"feature" of the interface (or should I call it Surface now?).

Cobus


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Full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista SP1)?

Does the initial IE window load more quickly if you (1) use a blank home
page and (2) start IE7 (one assumes) in No Add-ons mode?
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Cobus van Eeden wrote:
> I have a pet peeve about IE that has been a constant annoyance for years.
>
> I have google set as my home page, as that is the site I most commonly go
> to
> on the web and this is fantastic, the problem is that sometimes I open IE
> wanting to visit a specific other site. When I do this I open it and
> instictively start typing on the address bar.
>
> IE then decides that my typing is in fact much less important than the
> pre-set home-page, so halfway through my typing it replaces whatever I
> typed
> with the homepage, after which the rest of my typing is appended to this
> address to form a new invalid address. When I hit enter I end up with a
> error message and an unusable URL in the adrress bar and I have to do it
> all over again.
>
> This is a general issue with the Microsoft Windows API I find extremely
> annoying. Is it not possible to start a timer when I hit a key, and then
> prevent the window I am typing in from loosing focus for half a second or
> 750 milliseconds after my last keypress?
>
> After all, when I am typing something I am fairly busy with a specific
> action that I do not really want interrupted.
>
> My favourite peeve is where I am typing a word such as "Accessory" in word
> and in mid-word a popup appears notifying me of an error and asking me if
> I
> want to delete the document I was downloading (conviniently "y" shortcut,
> or
> keep it - (the "n" shortcut). With impecable timing Windows will pop up
> the
> question as I am pressing the "Y" in "Accessory" and I will inadvertantly
> delete something I never intended to ... How darn annoying ...
>
> Please, pretty please - see if you can get your guys to alter this
> annoying
> "feature" of the interface (or should I call it Surface now?).
>
> Cobus
>
>
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