I don't know whether I need to uninstall and re-install IE 8 or if this happens in all instances of it or what.
When I type a url in the address bar it ALWAYS yes always crashes on the second character of the address if it's not a site in my history or favorites. If it is in those it will work, but otherwise it crashes every single time on the second character (in other words if the second character does not match anything stored it crashes).
I thought of deleting my history and see if it somehow fixes it, but then if it doesn't then it would be that many fewer sites which I could get to in the address bar.
I narrowed this down to what's doing it. It only does it in 800 by 600 resolution. Microsft always claims they are trying to make things accessible for people with disabilities, so they better care enough to fix this despite it being lower resolution than is standard.
Basically what it does is it isn't even ACCESSING all of the history and then it crashes on the second character. I can type in "w" and it show no results, yet in file->open or in higher resolutions it has TONS of sites that start with w and it won't crash even if it doesn't have any.
Also the "manage addons" section is 100% UNUSABLE and it's not based on resolution in that case. It must be another setting such as text size or something because it has a horizontal scrollbar with now ay to see what's in the box. So I can't select anything and manage the addons!
Thus I have a default search provider I don't want since I can't switch it to the one I want!
I have no clue how to report this to MS and them actually have the right people see it. They have links to email their support yet when I go there it doesn't have an email link or form.
When I type a url in the address bar it ALWAYS yes always crashes on the second character of the address if it's not a site in my history or favorites. If it is in those it will work, but otherwise it crashes every single time on the second character (in other words if the second character does not match anything stored it crashes).
I thought of deleting my history and see if it somehow fixes it, but then if it doesn't then it would be that many fewer sites which I could get to in the address bar.
I narrowed this down to what's doing it. It only does it in 800 by 600 resolution. Microsft always claims they are trying to make things accessible for people with disabilities, so they better care enough to fix this despite it being lower resolution than is standard.
Basically what it does is it isn't even ACCESSING all of the history and then it crashes on the second character. I can type in "w" and it show no results, yet in file->open or in higher resolutions it has TONS of sites that start with w and it won't crash even if it doesn't have any.
Also the "manage addons" section is 100% UNUSABLE and it's not based on resolution in that case. It must be another setting such as text size or something because it has a horizontal scrollbar with now ay to see what's in the box. So I can't select anything and manage the addons!
Thus I have a default search provider I don't want since I can't switch it to the one I want!
I have no clue how to report this to MS and them actually have the right people see it. They have links to email their support yet when I go there it doesn't have an email link or form.