Re: Internet Exploder 5 and OS 10.3.9

From: Charles E. James <cejames_at_berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu Jan 26 2006 - 13:03:52 PST

Hi, Michelle

Awsome...that was the trick. As soon as I opened the favorites.html I
changed the default page to google and it works fine.

Thanks to Everyone!

Charles

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Michelle Bautista wrote:
> I had the same exact problem with a client's IE running on 10.3.8.  It
> wouldn't open in any account on the system.  I ended up going to the
> ~/Library/Preferences/Explorer/ and opening Favorites.html with IE to
> get it to open and to change the default page from msn to something
> else like yahoo.  That allowed IE to work, which some of my users
> still need for particular sites.
>
> Microsoft did announce on its site that it has ended support for it as
> of 12/31/05 and will take all downloads of IE for Mac off of its site
> by the end of the month 1/31/06.  So, anyone with a need for IE for
> Mac may want to burn a copy of the installer before the end of the month.
>
> -Michelle
>
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> On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:34 AM, Greg Merritt wrote:
>
>>
>> Changing my IE 5.2 preferences within the app and searching my home
>> folder for files changed today suggests that IE looks to
>> com.apple.internetconfig.plist for its prefs.  Some googling gives
>> some supporting evidence:
>>
>> ''Internet Explorer continues to store all of its preferences via
>> Apple's InternetConfig APIs. The Mac OS stores all of these
>> preferences in a file named com.apple.internetconfig.plist which is
>> stored in the user's home directory at the following path:
>> <~/Library/Preferences/>.''
>>
>> Do try first logging in as another user, to save yourself the
>> trouble... if the app itself is somehow hosed, you can avoid wasting
>> time playing with the prefs.
>>
>> Good luck!  ...and do you really need to use IE? :)
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Charles E. James wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Thanks Greg, no settings in the location you provided?
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
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