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
- In Internet Explorer, open the Internet Options dialog box from the View menu.
- Click on the Advanced tab.
- Find the line called Browse. If it's collapsed, double-click the icon next to it to expand it.
- Check the box next to "Browse in a new process."
- 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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