Windows 7 is wanting to upgrade to IE 10 and I have been hesitant. I remember when they went from ie 8 to ie 9 and I had problems until they worked out some kinks.

Has anyone moved to ie 10 and do you recommend it?

would appreciate any input.

Good question - I'd like to know too.

I'm running IE 10 under Windows 7. It's not that big of a change from IE 9. It does include a spell check feature that's built in, and lord knows I need it

Good to know.

I'm using it in Windows 8 in desktop mode and I really don't find a lot of difference either. I also like the spell checker!

I had Win 7 upgrades the other day and IE 10 was given as an option, not required as the other upgrades were. What IE 10 is like has been my question also, since my wife used IE 9 more often than I do and I didn't want something she'd have trouble with.

This thread has helped. Thanks for asking the question oldman.

Just downloaded IE10.

Thank you for the info.

Chief

Thank you all. That reassures me. I guess I'll click on allow to let windows update.

I downloaded IE 10 about a week ago on my laptop with Windows 7 and I can't tell any difference from IE9. I had Googled it and all the reviews seemed to be favorable - so go for it!

I went ahead and installed IE 10. Overall, it really doesn't look that much different than IE 9, but there is a slightly cleaner look to the graphics. So far it's been fine, but only time will really reveal the truth.

Just to add more re-assurance to using IE10, I been using it for 3 months and I never had any glitches, crashes or problems Linking to any of the Sites I visited whether it be my Favorites or New sites that I come across during my Web travel.

Homer, I'm with you with the slightly cleaner look.

Chief

I've also noticed it seems a bit faster loading than IE 9.

I noticed something yesterday while preparing the News of Galore.

With IE9, after checking a link to a game, let's say Dead Cyborg, and coming back to the Galore page, that link was outline by a rectangle around it.


It's interesting to have that capability when checking a few links to see what link you just checked.

IE10 does not give that capability.

Can that capability be reinstall?

Thanks.

Chief

Have you checked in tools to see if this function can be enabled?

Homer, just checked Tools and other links and found nothing.

Chief

I've never seen IE 9 behave this way - but, maybe the following link might help.

Changing IE9 visited link color

Inland, it's with IE10 that I do not get that dotted rectangle or border around a link.

Chief

Yes, I'm running 10 as well - but never recalled IE 9 behaving that way.

I also don't remember IE 9 having that feature. Only thing I remember, and it still occurs, is the color change from blue to purple when a link from a Google search was visited. Dashed lines around a visited link I've never seen.

Same here as Inland and Homer... a color change, but no "box" around a link and I'm still running IE9 on my Windows 7.

Drac, please go to Galore and click on any game.

Come back to Galore from the site of that game and tell me if, on your computer as it did on mine, you see a "box" around the game you just click on.

If you do not see that "box", then I Wonder why I had one.

And by the way, why are you all talking about colors?

Chief

OK. Let me boot up into my Windows 7 and I'll get back to you.

Chief, what's the actual website - I see a number of listings for "galore" in my search.

EDIT: Oops... I see you mean the Games Galore page here at Gameboomers.

Drack, it's our Free Games Galore. Click the link on top of this page.

When in there, click on any game you want.

Chief

Yes, it finally clicked in my brain. And, guess what, you are correct. There is a "box" around the name of the game when I come back. This must be something specific to how the link is set up here at Gameboomers. What we were talking about with the colors are links on the internet in general. For instance if I do a Google search for Galore, all the listings are blue. Once I click on a link, it turns sort of reddish purple color to indicate I've already clicked on that link.

I don't know why the links in the Free Games Galore page behave differently. I get the box in both IE 9 and in Firefox. I'm going to boot back up into Windows 8 now.

Drac, if you do the same in the Walkthrough section or in the Game Publishers & Developers section, you will get the same result.

That is why I'm asking if I can get this same effect with IE10 and how to install it if of course it is possible?

Chief

Now I'm in Windows 8 and IE 10. As you say, I do not get the box in either the Free Games Galore page or the Walkthrough page. However, I do get the change in color if I click on a link in a list of search results.

I still get the box in my Firefox on Windows 8.

Since IE 10 behaves like it's supposed to with the change in color in other links, I have no idea why the "box" doesn't show up in the links at Gameboomers.

If that feature is helpful to you, I'd suggest using Firefox for the time being. Maybe Inland or Jenny will have a clue about why this is.

Drac, thanks for the help.

I'll see what I can do about Firefox.

Chief

It's not something specific to IE. I see the same thing in Firefox. For example the 3rd entry in this screenshot of a Google search has the "box" around it after I select that entry and then use the "back" button to return to the Google page.
http://img16.imageshack.us/img16/9306/picture1zip.png

Yep, that's what I get at Galore.

I just tried to install Firefox and even come back to IE9. But I can't download them.

Is IE10 blocking them?

We certainly can finish this discussion tomorrow.

Getting late here.

Chief

EDIT: sorry, I got Firefox to install.

The thing is, Jenny, that the "box" does not exist in IE 10 for both Chief and me. I only shows up in IE 9 and Firefox.

I just had to come back and say that with Firefox, I do indeed get that "box" around a link at Galore.

Chief

Well, good to know you can use Firefox when you need to have this feature!

Absolutely none of my browsers behave this way, I wonder if this is some other (non-browser) specific setting in Windows?

I get it on both Windows 7 and Window 8 in Firefox. I get it in IE 9 on Windows 7, but not IE 10 on Windows 8.

In Firefox on Windows 8, if I do a search for say Galore and click on a search result, I am taken to a website. If I use the Back arrow to return to the search results, the color of the website listed in the search results has changed, plus there is now a dotted line box around the one I clicked on. The screenshot Jenny posted is what it looks like. Now, if I close the window and do another search on Galore, the search result I clicked on will no longer have that box, but the color will be changed.

In Firefox on Windows 7 and in IE 9 on Windows 7, I get the same result. It's in IE 10 that I no longer get the box. It's not important in the search results, but Chief uses it in the Gameboomers links because they do not change color after you click on them. The box is the only indicator you have clicked on one.

I see the box in Firefox on a Mac, but not in Firefox on my brother's Linux computer. I also don't see the box in Opera or Safari on a Mac. I do see it in Seamonkey on a Mac, which isn't surprising since Firefox and Seamonkey are related.

I see I misunderstood what Chief was talking about, so I did as suggested and this is what I see.

Using IE 10 or Opera I only get a change in color when I click on the name of a game in Games Galore and return from that site. As I said above, the same thing happens when selecting a link after Googling a topic.

I missed Jenny's link and after seeing the image, remembered I've never seen a box around anything like that. Just the color change after selecting the link and returning.

I didn't ever remember seeing it either, but I did when I tried it out.

Interesting to read your comments.

Thank you.

Chief

We're always trying to solve a mystery here, Chief!

While there plenty of references to remove the dotted lines with CSS, none will replace them for the last followed link, at least that I've run across. I'm sure you could do it with a combination of JavaScript and CSS, but that doesn't solve your problem.

From what I understand it was a usability feature built into the browser, unfortunately none of mine ever behaved this way.

I just looked through Opera's settings and only saw an option to underline links and change visited links color. I also looked at IE 10 and only found underline always, hover, never. Nothing about boxing a visited link. So I guess the question is why some see a box and others don't.

I don't think anyone sees the box in IE 10. We only see it in IE 9 and Firefox.

I Googled this topic and found many links to sites showing how to disable the dashed box, none how to enable it. On the sites I looked at, it was explained these boxes were once used for those who didn't have a mouse, and were used to let them see where the cursor was at the moment. Now they are considered ugly, and unneeded, their words not mine. Google the topic of dashed box around links to read a lot more on this topic.

Wow, I had no idea! But I do remember the days of navigating using the Tab and other keys and the "box" would move around. Interesting. I think mostly this was an issue for Chief because the links do not change color in the Free Games Galore page here at GB.

You can still change the color of followed links with IE 10 using your own CSS (specified in Tools, Options Accessibility). But it’s a global setting, in other words, every followed link will be affected.

Just create a text file in your Documents folder and paste something similar to this -



Rename the file to my.css and point to it in the options above. Make sure you place a check mark in the "Format Documents using my style sheet" box)

Chief, you mentioned that the links are highlighted (boxed) when you return to the GB page - when you follow a link does it open in a new tab? Or, does it replace the current page?

By the way, the above mentioned trick will not work well here at Game Boomers, but should work just fine on most pages. Try it on a Google search if you want to see it work.

Inland, it replaces the current page.

I checked to be sure, using Firefox.

And I'm sure that it did the same with IE9.

Chief

That would indicate you've got tabbed browsing turned off. I tried that, and all links open in a new window. Normally for that to happen you have to code it in the HTML as: window.open("some_page", "_self");

I'm not sure why that's happing for you - maybe the Web Master can answer that one. Like I said, it's been years since I've done serious Web design.

Chief,

As to color on Free Games Galore, can you reload the page and try to see if that is what you want.

MaG, with IE10, at Galore, after clicking on a game to see it and come back at Galore, I see that the title of the game is darker, but not by much.

If I didn't know what to look for, I would probably have not see it.

I checked other sections and got the same small difference.

Chief

EDIT: and all of this for trying to keep up with a new technology. Can't stop progress.

Thanks for testing Chief.