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In Internet Explorer 8 a new feature called Frame Process Merging was introduced. This means that if you open new tabs/windows (even if you try to start a new IE instance using the Quick Launch icon) only a new subprocess is created for the already running IE instance. This new process will share lots of resources with the main IE process, eg. session cookies. This prevents you from logging in to any website (web application) multiple times (potentially with different credentials) at the same time which can be pretty annoying if you're a developer. The problem is easy to fix: use the -noframemerging command line option of IE to disable this feature. You can create a separate IE shortcut with this option or just add it to the Quick Launch icon.

Windows Update is a tricky thing. It can use a proxy server (see one of my previous posts on this), but it won't use the same proxy as you've set in "Control Panel" / "Internet Options" (aka. IE's proxy settings). Windows XP has a "hidden" HTTP service (it's actually a driver visible in "Device Manager" under "Non-Plug and Play Drivers") and Windows Update uses this service to access Microsoft's servers. To set a proxy for this service, you've to use the proxycfg command line program. However setting a SOCKS proxy won't take any effect (at least it did not for me, neither for airwin). But there're ways to get around this.

It seems that IE6 has some problems handling ZIP file downloads if they are sent via gzip content-encoding by the server. Firefox 2.0.0.4 had no problems with that.

After installing IE7 you don't see any menu bar, nor can you change anything on your IE interface. The simple solution: press Alt to show the menu bar.

Here's the answer.

I've tried to embed a Google video on a page of my website and ran into several problems with the original HTML code that you get from the "Embed" link on the Google video page.

Internet Explorer limits the length of the URI that you can submit in an HTML form with the GET method to 2083 bytes.

Today I've read about TinyMCE (a Javascript based WYSIWYG editor) on drupal.org. I played around with the demo on their website and I'm quite impressed. It's very usable and (according to the news at the Drupal site) very easy to integrate wit Drupal-powered websites.

It's far from trivial how to use Microsoft's Windows Update service if the net is available only through a proxy server. I've done it some times in the past, but forgot the details so I had to go over it again. Now I'll describe the major steps (assuming the OS is Windows XP) so I won't have to rediscover the tricks anew ... and maybe it'll help others too.