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Windows Forum / Internet Explorer / General Topics / July 2007Command bars take up too much screen space
Please allow the user to choose which command bars to display, and where they are displayed. Ie6 (and MS Office) allow the user to place the command bars where they want them or to combine them on one line. I do NOT want to see the address bar at all times. I do Not want to have a search box visible at all time I want to combine the menu bar and the command bar buttons on one toolbar, and to be able to have the forward and back arrows on that toolbar. I want to have a button for print preview. I prefer not to use tabs, but to open pages in a new window when I so prefer...I want the new window to look the same as my first window, not like the IE7 default window. Why do you assume the the user community likes the look and features of Foxfire and other browsers. If we liked them, we would be using them instead of IE. Please don't take away what was offered in IE6. Just as many users of windows prefer the older style to the new style, let users of IE have the same choices.......especially the same choices that we have in Office Thx Bob Lovellette Bob, I could not agree with you more! In one post, you have concisely mentioned each of my complaints about the new IE. I have spoken with Microsoft about these issues on multiple occasions through Beta2, Beta3 and RC. However, the user remains at the mercy of the software designers... All that we ask is that we be given the freedom to make this, overall improved, program suit our personal tastes better. ABSOLUTELY!!! I will likely uninstall IE7 and return to IE6 for these very reasons! As well as the lack of a "find on this page" button option to add to the command bar, as mentioned in other threads. Have you had any luck with a response from Microsoft? The only thing I like about IE7 is the tabbed pages, and they're important enough to me to stick with it. and... I've moved the menu bar up to where it belongs. I've gotten rid of the search bar. but... I want to get rid of the command bar. I want to get rid of the favorites buttons. I want the new tab button to always show its icon, and be at the left, or be gone. I want the refresh and stop buttons over with the forward and back buttons. I want the tabs to look more like tabs! There should be nothing but tabs (and new tab) on that line. Bob - thank you for making all my complaints so succinctly. I've had to help several of our elderly neighbors remove IE7 from their computers. I think MS forgot that not everyone who surfs the web is as adept as they are - many are already in a steep learning curve with IE6. Not every one can afford to lose that much screen either. Users with limited eyesight (who can't afford 22 inch widescreen monitors) need all the room they can get -- not a big, old, useless Search box and Tabs. I've spent the past couple of days reading through this forum - it sounds like a lot of the Beta users pointed out these problems and more and MS didn't listen. M :( > Please allow the user to choose which command bars to display, and where they > are displayed. [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=91da 8636-8341-4c7e-bd40-c9cb3a3c3c63&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general I know it's been a while since this thread was first posted, but I too was fed up with the new IE7.0 and started looking for a solution to the toolbar problem. I have a 19" screen and I swear after a few months of having to navigate from one side of the screen to the other, I'll get RSI. I don't understand why they take away the flexible functionality of their software, I HATE the extra space on the command bar and it makes no sense to give this functionality to the people in one version, then in an upgrade, take it away. If anything, they should be adding MORE functionality and making it BETTER - not making it worse - take Windows Media Player 11 for example - I had to revert back to version 10 because it was so UN-user friendly. If somebody comes up with some way to be able to move the go/refresh and stop buttons, I'll be forever grateful, as well as being able to minimise the address bar. Microsoft, you've stuffed it this time. Frustrated > Bob - thank you for making all my complaints so succinctly. I've had to help > several of our elderly neighbors remove IE7 from their computers. I think MS [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=91da 8636-8341-4c7e-bd40-c9cb3a3c3c63&dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general >I know it's been a while since this thread was first posted, but I too was > fed up with the new IE7.0 and started looking for a solution to the toolbar > problem. I have a 19" screen and I swear after a few months of having to > navigate from one side of the screen to the other, I'll get RSI. I you'd learn to use the equivalent keyboard options you could greatly reduce all pointer use in IE. In many cases it is faster using them too because some involve subsequent keyboard use anyway. --- Would you be so kind then as to tell me where I might find these keyboard shortcuts. I know the cut, paste, new window - that's about it. Thanks > >I know it's been a while since this thread was first posted, but I too was > > fed up with the new IE7.0 and started looking for a solution to the toolbar [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > --- I'd like to be able to move some buttons into the Menu Bar and then compeletely get rid of the "Command Bar"!! It's a complete waste of space!! All they've done is divide the buttons up between 2 bars and wasted valuable screen space!! |
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