Competitions Discussion Thread Part 10

I can drag the 'Clicky' to the line ABOVE the address bar (IYKWIM) onto the actual frame of the screen, that opens the new address, but without the option to view the referral I don't know whether that makes any difference.

I used iehttpheaders for IE to perform the following test this small program allows you to see in real time what is being transmitted from your IE browser

Test

http://www.portlandholidays.co.uk/

ordinary click in browser

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1892917
Accept-Language: en-gb
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.portlandholidays.co.uk
Connection: Keep-Alive

Drag and drop into the area specified by Barnabysue

GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-ms-application, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/xaml+xml, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-shockwave-flash, */*
Accept-Language: en-gb
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: local.uk.msn.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cookie: MC1=V=3&GUID=3d8fd424bada49fb8eb8d77693d2899e; MUID=B3D613E9A96A47538021B4204A9E77BC; mh=MSFT; hpcli=0|R.1.1.cap|H.0.1; hpsvr=D:blu|W:C|M:5|F:5|E:5; hpwea=wc:UKXX0085; FlightGroupId=95; FlightId=BasePage

Good news!!

as you can see by the second bit of information the referrer is not being sent when you drag and drop the url into the area specified by barnabysue

iwannabeonthebeach wrote: »

in my FF it opens the drag and drop on the same page. how can i get it to open a new tab instead?

Click on Tools-options-Tabs

and select "new pages should be open in a new tab"

let me know if it works

hjb123 wrote: »

Ok, so seeing the Firefox browser being talked about I have decided to install it myself:D

Have managed to install it and also to get roboform onto it.

Couple of questions (so far!):

1 - how do i transport my favourites list from IE over to Firefox?

2 - when I click on links in an email - for example the email subscriptions from here - is there a way it will ?

thanks

Edit:
3 - why is firefox so much faster - cant believe how much quicker it is? or is it just me?!

For no 1 click on File-import

for no 2 Click on Tools-options-Tabs and select "a new window"

no 3 it's always been quicker for me

Best of Luck

Al_Mac wrote: »

Quick question, FF opens a new tab when you drag and drop. IE doesn't, can it?

Sorry not to reply to your post earlier Al

when I drag and drop into the address bar my FF opens up in the same page I would much prefer it to open up in a new tab as it would be a lot easier to get back to the previous mse page not quite sure how you can change this setting but it will be in FF's about:config somewhere ( I will have a looksie later but don't have time at the mo)

also i'm not that familiar with IE as I have always used Firefox and before that Netscape, but I would imagine that there will be a setting somewhere that will allow you to do this try looking in Tools-General-Tabs settings