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Just discovered it.
If you have many favourites in the favourites bar and you have to scroll down to find the right one, it can be a real pain. Instead just type the first letter of the page and it will directly scroll down to the shortcut.
If there is only one shortcut with that letter (maybe Z), the page loads in the browser automatically.
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Abhinav S wrote: Cool IE
An Oxymoron 
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My favorite feature in IE is the little cross at the top right of the window 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Abhinav S wrote:
Cool IE
These two do not fit comfortably together in any sentence I am aware of... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sure they do, in the same paragraph with Microsoft and Security. Usually as a joke.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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[Insert more IE hate here]
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It's not hate so much as pity really.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Looks like I'm the only one who still uses IE regularly.
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There are support groups who can stage interventions to help you move on.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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IE or Edge? If it's IE, then I think even Microsoft have abandoned it..?
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Abhinav S wrote: Looks like I'm the only one who still uses IE regularly.
Not quite...still my default browser, though I'm getting tired of the IE hints that I should be using Edge. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Looks like I will not be using IE anymore either.
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kmoorevs wrote: I should be using Edge
First they push their album onto every Apple device in existence, and now they're telling you that you should be using their lead guitarist[^].
Will Bono stop at nothing to promote his washed-up band?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Unlike Firefox, which has a search box built directly into the bookmarks bar and the bookmark manager.
Or Chrome, which has a search box built in to the bookmark manager.
Or Opera, which - you guessed it - has a search box built in to the bookmarks page.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Yeah. I think I need to stop using IE.
modified 23-Sep-17 1:01am.
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You still need it because many PCs at businesses use it. All of our employees use IE by default. There are other options out there which many, including myself prefer over IE.
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I started reading this book about Building Progressive Web Apps - O'Reilly (amazon link)[^]. Very interesting -- kind of a hybrid between web app that gives a UX of a native app. Okay, cool.
Then I read about Service Workers...
Read this and keep in mind that these are implemented in JavaScript inside your browser.
Progressive Web Apps Book says A service worker is a script that can be registered to control one or more pages of your site. Once installed, a service worker sits outside of any single browser window or tab.
From this place, a service worker can listen and act on events from all pages under its control. Events such as requests for files from the web can be intercepted, modified, passed on and returned to the page.
This means there is a layer between the page and the web that can respond to request independently of a network connection. A layer that works even if the user is offline. This layer can detect an offline state or slow responses from the server and return cached content.
Keep in mind these Service Workers can run, even if you closed the tab of the web site.
This makes me think of all those times my Chrome browser has gone insane doing stuff and I have no idea what it is doing. I'm not worried about Progressive Web App necessarily doing nefarious stuff --- protected by CORS -- but I am a bit concerned about uninformed web site devs using this functionality to the extreme so that it eats process on my machine simply because I've visited their web site. 
Seems a bit crazy to me.
 Of course, I've only read a couple of chapters and the one (google dev page below) so maybe there's more protection from poorly written code.
You can see the official docs on Service Workers at google's dev site:
Service Workers: an Introduction Web Google Developers[^]
modified 21-Sep-17 16:57pm.
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Not sure but if you read about the
https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-170916/
......
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I did read about the hackers running crypto mining code on users browsers and was wondering how they could do that a couple of days ago.
I think you've made the connection.  It probably is these service workers that the hackers are using.
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even the hackers are getting far Progressive .....
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/over-9000-penises
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How often does your get cleaned?
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Hmm. I don't have a travel mug, but I do have one of these[^].
A friend of mine told me the trick to cleaning them and any other stainless steel drink containers: use denture cleansing tablets. My 2 quart thermos takes about a dozen tablets, some warm water, and an overnight soak. I clean it about once a month.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The denture tablets also works for Glass Decanter (wine decanter).
I'd rather be phishing!
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I use OxyClean - works like a charm.
And, generally it gets cleaned when my wife starts going 'ewwwww'
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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If I had one I'd clean it after each use, same as my desk mug.
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