Frontier 5: Frontier and the Active Desktop
 
If you've installed the Active Desktop on Windows 95 or NT -- even if you've turned off its features -- there's a small change you can make in Internet Explorer's preferences that will allow it to work better with Frontier.

Instructions

  1. In Internet Explorer, open the Internet Options dialog box from the View menu.

  2. Click on the Advanced tab.

  3. Find the line called Browse. If it's collapsed, double-click the icon next to it to expand it.

  4. Check the box next to "Browse in a new process."

  5. Quit and re-launch Internet Explorer.

Why do this?

If you're building web pages with Internet Explorer as your web browser, Frontier will open up a separate window every time you publish a page -- unless you change your preferences as above. Then your browser window will be "recycled" -- every time you publish or preview a page the same browser window will be re-used.

Technical details

(You can skip this part if you want!)

If you don't have Internet Explorer browse in a new process, Frontier won't be able to detect when Internet Explorer is running. Frontier searches for a process called "Iexplore.exe" -- but with the Active Desktop this process isn't listed.

You can check this out for yourself: right-click in the task bar and open the Task Manager. Click the Processes tab. Is there a process called "Iexplore.exe?" (Or "IEXPLORE.EXE" -- case doesn't matter.)


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