IE7 Favorites | The Coffeehouse

erik_
Tablet Power

What do I need to do to view favorites that are not in the current menu?

I have a lot of non-sorted favorites. But atm I am seeing this 4 bars of favorites listing but not the ones I added as last. I am unable to reach them true the menu, before this was possible by scrolling a long time.

This might be a problem with my matrox driver or something like that, because the favorites menu item is also covering both my screens instead of only the active screen.

Is anyone else having the same problems or am I the only one that is just messy with his favorites?

mbazzoni

I have no problems with my Favorites. I have added some and I have a long list and I can scroll without issue.

IE7 has been solid since I started using it...I even posted an entry on my Blog about my first thoughts after loading it if anyone is interested, here is the link: http://bazzoni.blogspot.com/2005/08/first-impressions-internet-explorer-7.html

Could be a driver issue for you like you mentioned.

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

Does the scrolling menu have a bar yet?

mbazzoni

Okay, my Favorites is no where close to yours. If you want to send me a copy of your bookmark.htm file I could try it on one of my test machines with IE 7 to see if I get the same results.

It really sounds to me like an IE team member should ask you for your bookmark.htm file to test, but I would be willing to at least give it a shot.

What screen resolution are you using?

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

Erm, question:

Why does IE7 have this "Windows 95 Start-menu-style" behaviour for the favorites list?

What's wrong with the fine'n'dandy scrolling menus instead?

Or even the sidebar!

erik_
Tablet Power

W3bbo wrote:
Erm, question:

Why does IE7 have this "Windows 95 Start-menu-style" behaviour for the favorites list?

What's wrong with the fine'n'dandy scrolling menus instead?

Or even the sidebar!

That was the first thing I was asking myself when I just installed IE7. But with many favorites I have to say that 2 columns is kinda handy, but you need to get used to it. The full screen columns is not handly at all.

mbazzoni

Erik,

Wow, great work on this so far. It is really strange that it is cliping off 5 favs per line.

I looked at your code I will try this out at a different resolution and see what happens.

NeoTOM
OMG WTF REDESIGN

W3bbo wrote:
Erm, question:

Why does IE7 have this "Windows 95 Start-menu-style" behaviour for the favorites list?

What's wrong with the fine'n'dandy scrolling menus instead?

It takes 5 minutes to get to where you want to go. Add a friggin' scrollbar like in the Explorer pane (which is what I use now).

JChung2006

I agree with NeoTom. I prefer the Favorites sidebar (Ctrl I) to the Favorites menu, especially if you're going to deal with that many favorites.

erik_
Tablet Power

mbazzoni wrote:
Erik,

Wow, great work on this so far. It is really strange that it is cliping off 5 favs per line.

I looked at your code I will try this out at a different resolution and see what happens.

Btw. I have the same problems when I put my resolution to 1 screen (1280x1024). Only then you get less bars, I must say this is a damn good reason to buy an extra TFT display =)

screenshot

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

erik_ wrote:
Only then you get less bars, I must say this is a damn good reason to buy an extra TFT display =)

CRT you fool! Big Smile

erik_
Tablet Power

ghehe CRT are too cheap, you need to buy those in bulk =)

Rogerdgford

I discovered that my favorites displayed correctly once I sorted them all into alphabetical order. Previously, those at the end which were not in order were not displayed. IE7 seems to recognise favorites which are in alphabetical order, and to ignore any which are out of order after the final Y's or Z's

My favorites make up two columns with a few left over. When I first click on the menu, the last few are missing, but when I move the mouse off the menu and back, the second column scrolls down to show the last few.

This is all rather odd, and not very intuitive. What was wrong with the old style favorites menu Perplexed

Incidentally, there is a check box in Tools/Internet Options/Advanced to 'Enable Personalized Favorites Menu', but it does not seem to have any effect Sad

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

thinking about it , it would be nice if with IE7 or Vista you could sort favorites by tags; and optionally have it organized this way in the menu and sidebar. something about my experience in bookmarking sites is that i rarely take time to organize bookmarks so i have a long list. if when you make a bookmark the messagebox has an input for tags, and it automatically organizes it for you that would be nice

JChung2006

You should be able to build virtual folders of favorites in Windows Vista. With WinFS, you should be able to run queries with resultsets of favorites being returned.

Red5
Systems Manager Curmudgen

erik_ wrote:

What kind of monitor/screen are you using that allows such a wide view on everything? I gots to get me one of those.

erik_
Tablet Power

Red5 wrote:

erik_ wrote:

What kind of monitor/screen are you using that allows such a wide view on everything? I gots to get me one of those.

It's a dual monitor setup, not one screen. But looks like one when you make a screenshot of it

erik_
Tablet Power

Rogerdgford wrote:
I discovered that my favorites displayed correctly once I sorted them all into alphabetical order. Previously, those at the end which were not in order were not displayed. IE7 seems to recognise favorites which are in alphabetical order, and to ignore any which are out of order after the final Y's or Z's

My favorites make up two columns with a few left over. When I first click on the menu, the last few are missing, but when I move the mouse off the menu and back, the second column scrolls down to show the last few.

This is all rather odd, and not very intuitive. What was wrong with the old style favorites menu

Incidentally, there is a check box in Tools/Internet Options/Advanced to 'Enable Personalized Favorites Menu', but it does not seem to have any effect

I still have the same problem when I sort on name, sorting true internet explorer makes it crash with 400 favorites. Sorting true the explorer allows me but the problem stays.

erik_
Tablet Power

There is no scrolling bar on the side, or it is out of my screen.

The weird thing is that if I go with my mouse over tools and back to favorites it renders different.

By just clicking on Favorites I get the following:

My icons are missing here in column 4.

By moving my mouse over tools and go back to Favorites it shows the following:

And now my icons in column 4 are showing but in column 2 there are icons/favorites removed.

erik_
Tablet Power

What is a bookmark.htm file and where can I find it?

My screen resolution is : 2560x1024 (2x 1280x1024)

Tested it in the XP style also, to see if it might be something from the classic theme.

Done some more testing, cleaned out my favorites folder and created a .vbs file to quickly see what happens. Created 400 favorites and problem is the same, the disapering items in the second column are also still there. When I move my mouse over view or tools and move back to favorites the row starts at 48 instead of 44 same for the 3th, 4th, 5th, etc.

Look at the screenshot below:
Not online anymore

To created the favorites, use the following .vbs AT YOUR OWN RISK =) just backup your favorites folder and empty it.

set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
counter = 0
strFav = WshShell.SpecialFolders("Favorites")
Do
set oUrlLink = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strFav & "\Microsoft Web Site (Longer text as some of those nasty sites abuse the title bar in their advantage) " & counter & ".url")
oUrlLink.TargetPath = "http://www.microsoft.com"
oUrlLink.Save
counter = counter + 1

Loop until counter = 400

waddi

My Favorites (IE 7 in Windows XP) are in strict alphabetical order, and so is the Organize Favorites window, but when I go to Add to Favorites and select the Create In dropdown menu, the folders are in a completely random order, and so are the sub-folders inside them. This means I have to hunt for the right folder each time. I think this dates from the time I upgraded from IE6 to IE7.

I can't find any way to apply a sort to the Create In menu.

Can anyone help?