actually, if you just leave your arrow on the link for a half second before you click i think it works. i know this sucks and i have to deal with it too, but so far ive been using this technique and it works. so far anyway
To be fair, how long do you keep your mouse active on those shortcuts? I have used IE for like ever, (besides the other pile of rubbish) and I have NEVER had this problem.
Did you know that a CLICK is really short, click-like?
<strong>To be fair, how long do you keep your mouse active on those shortcuts? I have used IE for like ever, (besides the other pile of rubbish) and I have NEVER had this problem.
Did you know that a CLICK is really short, click-like?</strong><hr></blockquote>
It doesn't seem to be related to how long your mouse is over the link. This has happened to me as well (though only intermittently). When it does start happening, a quick single click will always bring up that "pull-down" menu.
The only solution that works once it starts happening (somebody posted this on a forum) is to click the very left edge of the @ icon beside each URL name. This solved things for me.
Weird, I get it the other way round: under 9 I'd got used to the menu popping up when I held the mouse button down on a link, now I have to hold down and ever so slightly move the mouse before it pops up.
I tend to live with one finger over the Control key now...
I am sitting at my computer, I want to go to MacNN, I click the toolba...ooops, drop down menu. Okay I will go to MacCentr...ooops, drop down menu, okay AppleInsi...ooops, drop down menu. Any of my Toolbar links? Drop down menu, drop down menu, drop down menu.
Sorry I should not have to position my cursor in the millimeter size spot to the left of the link to click on a toolbar link. This feature is so DAMN stupid and annoying!
How long do you hold it down for? I have never had this problem and find that I have to hold the mouse down for a full 2 seconds before i get this. Well it seems like alittle ove a second but you have to embelish when you are telling a story. Are you sure you rn't leaning on the control key
This is a real problem that is occuring on my mac as well. And it is very intermittent. One minute yes the next minute no. I never have had this happen prior to jag. It is annoying. There must be a way to fix it.
okay, get this...It was happening to me left and right a few seconds ago. I changed my click speed on my mouse and I have not had a problem yet. I made it slower for the double-click...I realize this may be a coincidence, but since I have changed my monitors sleep setting from anything but 15 minutes I no longer have to restart my mac to get it to wake up. Weird things in jag.
I get it most of the time too... quite annoying... but until other browsers (Omni-Web & Chimera) become usable and compliant for all my needs... IE remains my default browser.
Besides... what's so 'bad' about IE that I hear so much complaining...? Sure... the little "menu" bug is annoying... but what are the major gripes...?
Actually... SCRATCH THAT! I don't want to turn this thread into that kind of debate.
Back on-topic: I do not know how to disable that behavior.
These drop down menus SUCK. Half the time I cannot click on my toolbar links cause they keep dropping down.[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
I've had this since early OS X. Thru 10.0, 10.1 and Jag. It's just as described - sometimes 3 and 4 times before a click actually behaves like a left click instead of a right click.
The "ever so slightly move" problem and the "failed screen redraw requiring select all" are both still present in IE 5.1.2.
Other browsers, until they implement the "instant back" button like IE does, aren't useful to me because they reload a page from the net when the Back button is used.
Whenever that crap starts happening to me, I quit IE and relaunch. 5 out of 6 times it goes away. The 6th time? I reboot. That bug annoys the crap out of me, especially since there doesn't seem to be reset buttons on this new Dual 867.
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You're telling me that people still use Internet Explorer on Mac OS X?
:eek: <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
Moving...
Fact is I am waiting for Chimera to mature cause I love that browser. Anyway, anyone know how to turn it off?
Did you know that a CLICK is really short, click-like?
<strong>To be fair, how long do you keep your mouse active on those shortcuts? I have used IE for like ever, (besides the other pile of rubbish) and I have NEVER had this problem.
Did you know that a CLICK is really short, click-like?</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree.
The only solution that works once it starts happening (somebody posted this on a forum) is to click the very left edge of the @ icon beside each URL name. This solved things for me.
I tend to live with one finger over the Control key now...
Sorry I should not have to position my cursor in the millimeter size spot to the left of the link to click on a toolbar link. This feature is so DAMN stupid and annoying!
do these things behave different than in OS9?
I don't recall having it happen in X either.
wth.
Besides... what's so 'bad' about IE that I hear so much complaining...? Sure... the little "menu" bug is annoying... but what are the major gripes...?
Actually... SCRATCH THAT! I don't want to turn this thread into that kind of debate.
Back on-topic: I do not know how to disable that behavior.
These drop down menus SUCK. Half the time I cannot click on my toolbar links cause they keep dropping down.[/QB]<hr></blockquote>
I've had this since early OS X. Thru 10.0, 10.1 and Jag. It's just as described - sometimes 3 and 4 times before a click actually behaves like a left click instead of a right click.
The "ever so slightly move" problem and the "failed screen redraw requiring select all" are both still present in IE 5.1.2.
Other browsers, until they implement the "instant back" button like IE does, aren't useful to me because they reload a page from the net when the Back button is used.
That's one reason I gave up and went with Chimera.