The second block of numbers does not set the height and width, as I thought, but the position of the lower right corner, the first block sets the position of the upper left corner. A useful string would look like this:
<002d0001 031d0451 00000000 00000356 0500>

Unfortunately, this modification did not survive a logout, the window size went back to what it was before. When I deleted the com.Microsoft.Explorer.plist file, it survived a logout (but no new Explorer.plist file has been created so far).

I also would like to know if there's a way to set the default size for at least one of the "Zoom" states that is toggled when the green "+" button is clicked. It seems to me that it *ought* to be impossible, by design, to set one of the two states as a fixed position and size, since the point of the Zoom function is to adapt the window to your screen's size. If your monitor resolution were changed, or if you were using a 2nd monitor, then fixing both Zoom states would mean that the window could not adapt to the monitor's resolution. Still, I can imagine good reasons why one, not both, of the Zoom states could be specified at a fixed point with fixed dimensions.

Since you mention this, I wonder too if it would be possible to set, system-wide for every app, a hotkey [shortcut key] for the Zoom function. I've yet to encounter a program that uses a hotkey for window Zooming, but that seems to me one of the best places for one. Think about it: if your window isn't appropriately sized so that you can mouse-drag the bottom right corner, you have to move the window around first, then find the corner, then drag it. Sometimes, after changing the monitor resolution, my Aqua windows show up with their title bars beneath the Apple menu bar, and I must use the Window menu to Zoom the window before I can move it since I can't click on the obscured title bar.

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This is a very old trick that has worked since the very early days of Mac web browsers.

- Launch the program.
- Resize the window to the size you want
- Quit the program

Next time you launch the browser, it will be that size for the default.

The probable reason it happened to you is because the last window closed when you quit was a small pop up window.

Though that works for me now, I am pretty sure it did not work before I had modified com.apple.internetconfig.plist and deleted microsoft.explorer.plist, since I've resized a lot of windows over the last couple of months and had quit the explorer inbetween and still all new windows kept popping up on the right side of the screen. Maybe some strange interaction between these two pref files.

You don't even have to quit the program. Just make sure the last open window is your preferred size, then close it. Then open a new window, and it'll be the same size.

Somebody's still using Internet Explorer for Mac? Holy cow. I'm sure you have a good reason, but just in case...

Jump on Safari or Camino. They both rock. IE is on it's way off the platform, so it's basically a lame duck. A lot of sites, particularly those that deal with important data, like banking sites, require that you use MSIE. But Safari lets you change the user agent (the browser identification string) right from the menu. Camino might do the same... I don't remember.

How exactly do you change the user agent in Safari? I've never seen a way to change that in all the menus I've found...

Although you may get a site to work by changing the User Agent, you might be doing more harm then good in the long-run.

If sites start seeing Safari users coming to their site, they are more likely to consider making their site more standards-based.

If they just see users sticking to Internet Explorer and that is the majority of the traffic they get for their site, they are less likely to do anything for Safari users.

Hihi,

There is an application that un-hides the debug menu in Safari. You can download it from versiontracker. It is called Safari Enhancer. Click on this to go to the download page:

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17776

regds

MM

You are kidding right?

Spoofing does not always work with Safari. Banks both in the UK and in the US do not support it (Citibank is a good example) and the javascript in Safari is far from perfect. A lot of e-commerce sites do not work with it (Warner Village Cinemas for example)

As much as I would love to wipe the IE from my Applications directory, I know that in this very real world the chances of this happening are one in a million.


MM

Who the *censored* cares about Internet Exploiter, Exploder, whatever!! WTF, Get this *censored*ing hint out of here!!! IE is dead, over, finished, discontinued, figneto for the mac, get a mac use mac..that's all i'm done here, just don't waste anymore of my *censored*ing time.

What a grouch. Dude, you need to chill.

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