I Feel It Like A Bug In Windows XP, Do You? - Bug in windows XP

finaldesign

Dec 12 2005, 08:47 AM

Yeah, get firefox. IE su*ks. I tried to simulate that bug, but all It does on my configuration is nothing. When i click "view source" it does nothing, not opening notepad, not opening notepad folder. but still it's a bug, a stupid one I would say, but I think it's related to that "Start->Run" command in windows, because that is a way to start notepad, so if you have "Notepad" on your desktop, IE would run that folder instead of real notepad, because IE's process is runned under desktop... It's like when you have a folder under linux called fschk, and you have program under bins that's called fschk also. so you try to run it in shell, but instead, you get error, because of that folder...

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mastercomputers

Dec 12 2005, 10:46 AM

QUOTE(finaldesign @ Dec 12 2005, 09:47 PM)

Yeah, get firefox. IE su*ks. I tried to simulate that bug, but all It does on my configuration is nothing. When i click "view source" it does nothing, not opening notepad, not opening notepad folder. but still it's a bug, a stupid one I would say, but I think it's related to that "Start->Run" command in windows, because that is a way to start notepad, so if you have "Notepad" on your desktop, IE would run that folder instead of real notepad, because IE's process is runned under desktop... It's like when you have a folder under linux called fschk, and you have program under bins that's called fschk also. so you try to run it in shell, but instead, you get error, because of that folder...

I would call this a bug, what I think happens if I recall correctly is that IE does not store the fullpath and name of the file you want to use. If it only stores notepad, it would rely on the name only ignoring extensions since the extension path would be used (in an order of preference too), I also believe you're running IE from the desktop, this would be the location that IE would be in when running it, so looking for notepad in it's current location first (on the desktop) would have higher priorty than using the path names, since it checks it's local place first, then if not found follows the path names through the order they were given looking for it.

What I'd like to know is, if you change the source code viewer's name to iexplorer would it run IE? Infact is that the case with any of it's choices, mail client, news reader etc.

I don't run windows, but that's the best explanation I can give about this.


Cheers,


MC

 

 

 

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wutske

Dec 14 2005, 11:54 AM

Haha, M$ geniousity .

No probs for Opera

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SP Rao

Nov 28 2006, 06:52 AM

He he.. Funny error. I could simulate it.
What a stupid piece of code that must be which is running inside IE....
Definitely a bug. What else could we call it?
I use Firefox and Opera.... Opera in particular is one step ahead that all the other browsers... It had almost all the features of Firefox 2.0 more than two years back!

IE browser really s*cks!

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