Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / July 2004

I've got IE 5.2 with Mac OS X (v10.2), but I can not view Arabic
script on some websites. Does anybody know how I can view this? I can
type in Arabic script in TextEdit, by setting the language in System
Preferences to Arabic, but it doesn't give me the option to switch to

Anybody know how I can eliminate the ugly-looking border that appears
around hyperlinked images in IE5/Mac?
I realize that the browser has been discontined but I presume that many
are still using it, so I'd like tosolve this issue if possible...

My iMac (DV, purchased in 2000, OS 9.1.2?) \simply won't launch
Explorer anymore. As soon as I click on the alias or another program
invokes Explorer, the startup screen for MSIE appears, and my cursor
freezes within seconds.

I'm trying to map an IP to a specific domain in the local Hosts file on my
G5, but nothing I do seems to work.  All the documentation I've read about
the Hosts file makes it seem very straightforward, but my mapping just
doesn't take effect.  Specifically, my problem is accessing a ...

Every time I try and "double click" a link to open a page or logon to a
page, the subtitle opens up to a menu...I dont want the menu, I just
want to click on the link and go to the new page.
Any suggestions?  I have racked my brain on the Explorer settings...

Every time I forward an e-mail message, it becomes garbled.  The
following "symbols" get dropped in throughout the e-mail:
                        &gt       &amp        gt        amp      
quot

For a couple of months my EX 5.1.7mac freezes for about a minute. Then it
will run well for about 5 minutes. This seems to have become a regular
event.
I have a large collection of favorites - pageholder, toolbar, favorites if

I have some screens in my JSP app which work fine except in Mac IE
5.2.  The steps are as follows:
1. Click on a submit button on my screen which takes me to Screen A
2. Hit the browser's back button.

I went to:
<microsoft.public.jp.outlookexpress.mac>
and I only found a half a window of posts.
I've been there before and I recall many posts, like here, IE mac.

Does anyone know how to set Internet explorer settings on
a mac for any user that logs on to the server.  I'm
finding the MAC OS more and more infuriating, i can do it
easily on a windows server using gpo's.  why not on an

Hi all, I cannot increase the memory in IE 5.1 with an IMAC, 333 with
the drawer CD. and 160 memory built in.. I do get the memory pulldown
from the edit menu, but the items listed just give me inofo about the
current sizes with no chance in increase the memory. What should I do?

We go into the helper settings and set it to not open
files but offer save only options.
The settings save and operate until IE is closed and then
when re-opened, the settings default back to the original

We have received a few emails from MAC users that are having major
problems.  This is from a person using IE 5.1.7:
"At times I'm able to access and view a few pages before it hangs up
and crashes me. Well just freezes -- after 45 minutes the page still

Using IE 5.2.3 on OS X v10.2.8 for quite a while with no
problems.  Recently, when I try to open the Download
Manager window it appears as a blank white box on the
upper left side corner of my screen (on top of the main IE

Hello, operating on a powerbook G4 with OS 10.3.4 and i
recently downloaded IE 5.2.3 and now I can not load any web
pages.  The status bar says "Connecting 127.1.0" and then
after 1-2 minutes, a window of "http...failed." Netscape