1 RANT LOAD
Okkay, so that IE is harfy isn't exactly news to anyone. At least it can be hammered, clobbered, and bludgeoned into not being as stupidly wide open as the defaults it arrives with would have it.
But doing that results in it whining about that having been done to it. I turned off ActiveX stuff for a reason, damnit. Let it be off! No. In its finite wisdom every page with ActiveX will not really load until the "helpful" dialog box saying I've turned ActiveX off and ActiveX won't run is dismissed. Damnit, I said OFF, and I flipping well mean OFF! Stop harassing me. Bugging me to turn ActiveX on won't work. I won't turn it on. But I will get irked.
And totally unrelated is the little gem of being unable to scroll if a chunk of text is highlighted. Not if any text is highlight, no, you can highlight a word or sentence, or maybe more. Or maybe more, sometimes. We don't dare have consistency. Not even irritating consistency. Instead an unpredictable irritation.
You may be asking why I want to scroll with something highlighted. Fine, it makes it easier to read or skim ahead and go back to a point. But whether I can scroll or not scroll should at least be consistent! And of course when I start writing about this I look for an example and can't find one... what gives? It happens not every time, just often enough to be irksome.
If I had a choice of a different browser in this instance, I would exercise it. I have a hard time imagining an alternative actually worse than IE. Thank you Microsoft. Get Lost.