IE 8 view source

[justinbarneskin]

Ok, everything was going along fine with my philosophy:
If no problems, don't upgrade / don't update

It takes weeks to get everything settled the way I like it again.

So, I made the big mistake of downloading IE8 and now, some useless program comes up when I click to view source. Its absolutely lame, "original source" is whats on the title bar.

tools/internet options/programs/HTML editing--- shows Notepad selected

What is this other thing that comes up instead of Notepad and, how can I get Notepad back?

[justinbarneskin]

And another thing. IE used to only place a little yellow triangle on the status bar
to indicate errors. Now, you have to suffer a huge honking alert window on each error.

At least my .hta applications still open Notepad when I wish to edit. I once held out for
IE and some of its proprietary codes for local applications but this new 8 has really strained my opinion.

Firefox will become the default browser and I have Editor2 set for editing. Meanwhile, IE will open Notepad to edit but not from a handy right click. No, you have to go to file/edit with Notepad.

That other stupit thing that comes up isn't good for much other than psychedelic colors on the test and to find line numbers.

[justinbarneskin]

Go to Control Panel, Programs and Features, click on View Installed Updates and then you'll see IE8 in the list to uninstall.

IE8 can wait for your next, new machine.