Though Google Chrome and Firefox have seriously cut Internet Explorer’s dominance, many of you still like and user IE. But even those of you who love and use IE everyday probably don’t know it has several tools built-in that you can really use.
Fire up Internet Explorer and press the F12 key to bring up Developer Tools (you can also access it from Tools/F12 Developer tools). When the tools open, click Tools on the top toolbar and you’ll see it has a color picker, ruler and you can even change the IE user agent string (this tells the web page you’re visiting which browser you’re using) to Firefox, Chrome, Safari (iPad), Opera and several others. Why would you want to do this? You probably wouldn’t — but if you were a developer and wanted to check your web pages on other browsers without downloading them all, this supposedly makes that possible. However if you just want to hide from web sites, the fact that you’re using Internet Explorer (for whatever reason), this is how you can do it.
So now you know where to find a color picker, a ruler and several other tools you never knew that you could find in Internet Explorer.
This article applies to Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8; Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10.
You tell us not to search for new drivers – “don’t fix it if it is working”. But then you advertise “Download the latest Windows 7 Drivers”. Make up your mind !!
Love your newsletters – I try to get everyone in our village group to subscribe.
We have NEVER EVER EVER said “Download the latest Windows 7 drivers”(nor any other drivers). It’s odd that you remember our admonition about “if it isn’t broke don’t fix it” but you seem to have forgotten the many, many times we’ve warned folks to be sure they know the difference between the advertisements on a page and the actual content of the page. Every ad on this site is labeled as an ad. And you were looking at an ad that said “Download the latest Windows 7 drivers”.
If you’re going to remember our advice, try to remember the really important things — like being careful you don’t confuse an advertisement with content. Our site makes it easy since every ad is labeled as an ad — but many sites don’t. Be careful.
The one thing I don’t like about Chrome are the ads. Every page I visit using Chrome contains a bevy of ads and like the ads on TV; they are annoying. There are a great deal less ads using IE.
Chrome has no ads. The pages you visit have ads whether you view them in IE, Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, etc.
Yes, I know every page has ads; but when you use Chrome, the ads multiply greatly. I tested by opening the same webpage using IE and Chrome. Chrome has way more advertisement than when using IE.
Then your chrome browser is infected with malware that is injecting ads. If you would like you can give me 3 URLS and I will take screen shots using chrome, IE, and Firefox.
I assure you Chrome does not inject ads into pages; it works like every other browser in that it reads the source code of the page and renders it.
As you may or may not know, you never view a Web page from the Web, you view it from your cache — if Chrome is infected with malware then all bets are off — and Chrome, like Firefox and IE is susceptible to malware toolbars and extensions.
Whether you believe me or not makes no difference — what I’m telling you are facts.
Send me 3 URLs where you see more ads in Chrome than in IE, and I’ll do an article with screen shots taken from both browsers. All of my browsers are 100% clean — and you will not see any substantial difference in the ads. You may see different ads in different browser, but you will not see more ads.
The only exception would be if you have popup blocker enabled in IE and disabled in Chrome — but I doubt that is the case.
I think your Chrome is compromised.
Internet Exp can be a pain. I am glad Darcy was able to re-route my email to Outlook Express. I still have to log on to Verizon because I also have email still going to the mail box. What gives? I just signed up for Gmail. Also one of your readers mentioned updating drivers. Uniblue just sent me an email about checking and they found 24 outdated
ones. Would like to know if this is on the up and up. Thank you for all you information.
Best thing i ever did for my PC is get rid of IE! Everything is better including my attitude =D
I had been to a couple of websites-Amazon was one- looking for particular items, using Chrome as my browser. When I opened another website I had ads from Amazon and the other site -using the items I had looked at-pop up on the left side of my screen. I no longer use Chrome-I am using Firefox and this hasn’t happened. I had made Chrome my default to avoid having IE open everything. Personal opinion- IE6 and XP are Microsoft’s best offerings. I had to upgrade to Windows 7 -I did it kicking and screaming-and I don’t like anything about the program. The new Dell doesn’t exactly get rave reviews either.
If you see things differently in Chrome then you have an infection or something in Chrome that shouldn’t be there. It would be suicide for Chrome to be malware or adware — they’re gaining market share not losing it.