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Are you annoyed by the size of your IE window when it slips behind the dock? I inadvertently found this trick: with IE as the front application, just press Option-Command-D twice in a row. The IE window will resize to just above the dock and give you access to the scroll bars again.
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Dock Hiding On / Off
Of course this turns Dock hiding on and then off again, which signals IE and other Dock-savvy applications to resize their windows.
IE's not really dock-savvy
Well, officially, IE is NOT "dock-savvy", because a dock-savvy application recognizes the dock when you MAXIMIZE a window within that application. So that's why this tip is so helpful -- it gets around the fact that IE is NOT dock-savvy.
Default IE window position?
Cool hint. The first thing I do each time I start up IE is resize the browser window so that the right edge is against the right edge of the screen, so that I can blindly move the pointer to the far right to operate the scroll bar. Is there a way (script, pref file, etc.) that I can make this my default window position?
Default IE window position?
Preferences-->Interface Extras. Toggle the window settings in there, and you'll get the desired effect, I believe. Haven't played too much with this, though... I could be wrong.
Default IE window position?
Not default, but a quick fix is to use a bookmarklet, which is javascript as an URL. I have a folder of them in my favorites bar. Make a favorite with the URL:
Default IE window position?
Ooh, I like that, didn't even think of it. Even easier would be to put enter that javascript line into the preferences as your homepage, and tell it to automatically go to your homepage upon opening a new window.
Default IE window position?
Thank you! That javascript command is exactly what I was looking for. I've made it my default page and now all my new windows are exactly the size I want them :)
Default IE window position?
EXCELLENT TIP!!! Thx!!!
Didn't work for me
Command-Option-D adds the current URL to the Toolbar Favorites in IE.
Didn't work for me
Same here, I got 40 bookmarks from hittin COMMAND+OPTION+D, so don't tell me that only OPTION+D creates bookmarks as I got plenty to prove this doesn't work for everyone. Yes IE is in the foreground, it just doesn't work (other then making bookmarks)
WRONG.
WRONG.
Correction
This DOES work. I'm on 10.1.3 with IE 5.1.3 and the shortcut keys for bookmark are Command-D, NOT Command-Option-D.
WRONG.
The command for adding a bookmark in Explorer is Cmd-D *not* Cmd-option-D. This hint works just fine :)
WRONG.
Certainly not wrong for me - it works as the posting says.
WRONG.
Command-option D does NOT re-size my IE window either. It adds the current URL to my Toolbar Favorites.
RIGHT!
This hint is valid and correct! Hitting CMD-OPT-D does in fact hide and unhide the dock, thus moving any IE window above the dock. This works with IE as the front application or any other, as far as I know.
Interesting ... but still wrong on many people's systems, if not on all systems.
Yes, Command-D adds a favorite. Command-Option-D adds a favorite to Toolbar Favorites. This hint does not work on my system, nor on many people's systems, evidently. It'd be interesting to see what the differences are.
The Difference...
Command-option-D is a menu shortcut, so if for some reason the Dock options are not in your Apple Menu then command-option-D won't do anything. When I first got FruitMenu I didn't enable the Dock options at first, and so it broke the command-option-D shortcut.
More interesting
I'm running 10.1.3 and MS IE 5.1.3 on a PB G3 bronze (scsi). cmd-opt-D works for great for me. In fact, I was cursing Apple for not having included a keyboard shorcut for hiding the dock... my bad.
And still more interesting...
I noticed that programs that *properly* implement a shortcut used by Apple - such as command-H or command-option-D - supercede the system-wide shortcut. For example, when running BBEdit the dock hiding shortcut goes away, because it is overridden by BBEdit's "Reveal Selection" command. |
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