While I'm sure the writer is correct in his summary above, the tool itself doesn't appear to contain either any clues as to what its various options actually do, or any help as to anything it can see that might be wrong / broken / misconfigured.
There's also no obvious "do this" or "apply" button.
I might use this in an emergency but it doesn't -- in its present form, anyway -- look like something that's likely to inspire confidence in most potential users.
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Fire Fox or Avant Browser instead.
There are plenty of sites that don't work right outside of IE. No, they shouldn't be coded that way, but they are.
years ago I used Avant myself. Basically it's a screen door for MSIE.
I have never heard of a site that doesn't work outside of IE. In the early 00's the mantra IE only was valid but that is 7-10 years ago. Maybe some legacy Intranet apps are still IE only but a not working for ~70% of the browser market share would be the kiss of death. Even MS doesn't write IE only apps anymore.
I permanently repaired all IE issues in 2004 by switching to Firefox. Never regretted it.
Not only have I avoided most of the IE BS by sticking with Firefox, I make sure I develop sites with Firefox first, than only test in IE, Chrome, Konqueror, Safari, Opera...admitedly if I am in a hurry, I do not test all those browsers every time...just when implementing a new feature.
The important point is by developing in anything other than IE, you avoid the proprietary IE browser gotchas that everyone jumps through hoops to create work arounds. If you have to create a work around...you have already failed.
Browsers that require work arounds, honestly are NOT worth the trouble. Time is money and they cost way too much.
The important point is by developing in anything other than IE, you avoid the proprietary IE browser gotchas that everyone jumps through hoops to create work arounds. If you have to create a work around...you have already failed.
Browsers that require work arounds, honestly are NOT worth the trouble. Time is money and they cost way too much.
For IE, I have found disabling or removing toolbars and add-ons and then going to Tools - Internet Options - Advanced - Reset (you can decide what additional items to clear such as Cookies, etc through this menu) has resolved most issues.
Reset usually fixes about 9o9% of the problems. I have no toolbars like Bing, Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc. All are a waste of memory.
I'm more comfortable just resetting IE to the defaults as described above.
When I go to the Anvi website from the link in the article, the first thing that catches my eye is that this software is a trial. If so, I wish it had said so in the article. Or, am I missing something here and it is free?
You have to wonder about the site. Says "trial" but also says "free". So is it a free trial? Free? Trial? Of course Jsack says nothing....
When I click on the link to the Anvi download page, my Trend Micro AntiVirus flags it as a malicious site.
As I was having some IE problems, slow response and occasionally "not responding" messages. I tried this software, which appears to have had some effect. However it also damaged my installation of Norton Internet Security, so I had to reinstall NIS afterwards.
Makes you wonder how well tested a version 1.0 is.... Hopefully the author fixes the current problems before adding other browsers [although Google needs help!].
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