Fixing The Annoying Internet Explorer 8 Dropdown Popup Blocker

So after using IE8 for about five minutes I found a super annoying feature that seems to cause the popup blocker to be invoked after clicking on any dropdown box. I began trying to fix this by adjusting the security settings (As Microsoft Suggests In the Information Bar), I literally tried every setting available and nothing would turn it off. Closing and re-opening browser instances, you name it, nothing worked. Eventually I found the fix and here it is.

Open Add/Remove Software -> Uninstall IE8

Fully uninstall IE8, ignore the warnings about "This program has dependencies, blah blah blah".

Once the uninstall is complete, do a full restart.

Now open the default IE version (should be IE6 if you're using XP), check the dropdown functionality on any webpage. Should work without displaying the popup blocker. Once that is confirmed, redirect your browser to:

http://www.microsoft.com/ie

Download IE8 and install. Once the install completes, reboot again. Once you've back up, launch IE8 and you should be prompted with the firstrun configuration wizard. Select "Custom Settings" not "Express Settings", proceed normally through the options selecting what you need.

Now go to any web page and check the dropdown functionality again. Should work just fine. I've done this on serveral machines now and this seems to be the fix.

Enlightenment E-17 On Gentoo The Easy Way

I'm an extremely heavy Linux user and I've used Enlightenment for quite some time, I recently downloaded the E-17 svn trunk and did a full build by hand. After spending the better part of a day building everything from hand, figuring out the correct order, fixing dependencies, etc. I finally got the new Enlightenment desktop up and running. It is absolutely beautiful, they're doing a great job. Along those same lines, I've recently found a script that makes installing E-17 a snap. Check out the script easy_e17.sh

http://exchange.enlightenment.org/application/show/134

This script makes short change of what took me the better part of the day and allows you to stay up to date with the latest fixes. Great work by morlenxus. The script is very easy to use, just download and execute:


chmod a+x easy_e17.sh
./easy_e17.sh -i


Then sit back and relax while your new desktop is downloaded, configured and built. The final binaries are installed at /opt/e17, so after compilation make sure you set you .xinitrc to "exec /opt/e17/bin/enlightenment_start"