Firefox & Tabs

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Ok so in the last couple of weeks i've came across 4 websites that wont work properly on IE. I had nothing but bother with them, and every time, when I used Firefox, they worked fine. When I asked two of the sites about it they simply said they dont support IE.

Now I know very little about these things but my assumption was that pretty much everyone used IE but I'm guessing I must be wrong.

Anyway so now I'm looking to change and just get things sorted out but one thing is very minor but quite annoying.

When I create a new tab in FF i want it to open my homepage rather than a blank page, which I worked out how to do eventually but then once it does so, the cursor is automatically in the address bar as opposed to the google search if you understand me. So you need to open a new tab, then make sure you click the search bar, then start typing. In IE, you simply created a new tab and off you went. Like i said its extremely minor but just a bit annoying when youre used to the other way, so anyone know if its something you can rectify?
 
Middle click the home button to open a new tab on your home page. For me that is Google, and the cursor is in the search bar not address bar.
 
Ok so in the last couple of weeks i've came across 4 websites that wont work properly on IE. I had nothing but bother with them, and every time, when I used Firefox, they worked fine. When I asked two of the sites about it they simply said they dont support IE.

Now I know very little about these things but my assumption was that pretty much everyone used IE but I'm guessing I must be wrong.

Anyway so now I'm looking to change and just get things sorted out but one thing is very minor but quite annoying.

When I create a new tab in FF i want it to open my homepage rather than a blank page, which I worked out how to do eventually but then once it does so, the cursor is automatically in the address bar as opposed to the google search if you understand me. So you need to open a new tab, then make sure you click the search bar, then start typing. In IE, you simply created a new tab and off you went. Like i said its extremely minor but just a bit annoying when youre used to the other way, so anyone know if its something you can rectify?

Must be on XP with IE 6 then or possibly 7...
The reason that they are not supported is because they are about a decade out of date...end of discussion. People still use IE but at least make it up to date with 8 or 9 or get a better browser like Firefox
 
As mentioned the site specifically said they dont support IE so even had I to upgrade it still wouldnt fix the problem I expect.

They reckon IE only accounts for 8% of their traffic so it isnt worth the effort.
 
that's fair enough if that's the stats...I'd be inclined to not visit a site if they take that stance though...and I'd be fairly worried if I could write of just under 10% of visitors like that
 
May well be if i upgrade to IE9 it'll fix the others but so far they all seem to run well on FF so looks like this is the way forward.


Cheers
 
tab utilities v1.1 will do what you want, had to change when updated firefox from 4 to 5 as new tab homepage isn't compatible (yet)
 
Yeah my FF updated this morning and broke the add-on, but used what Andy suggested and it works again.

Thanks
 
As mentioned the site specifically said they dont support IE so even had I to upgrade it still wouldnt fix the problem I expect.

They reckon IE only accounts for 8% of their traffic so it isnt worth the effort.

IE9 is the most complient version of IE yet and HTML5 compliant too (or at least, mostly complient lol). I would hazard a guess that this site would work fine in IE9 as most sites I've tried render fine in it.

I use Tab mix plus on FF5. been using it for years because I like how i can have multiple rows of tabs rather than having to scroll to find them. It also lets you open new tabs to your homepage etc
 
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