Comments on: Domain Highlighting – Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) new Security feature

By: linda

linda — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:38:26 +0000

Hate this. I just ran MS fix to get the damn address bar back below the file menu. God I hate these changes they make.
I really hate this greyed out url thing. It is horrible.
I try to use firefox most of the time, but as a web designer I have to check stuff in IE.
Yuck!

By: tm

tm — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:38:42 +0000

This is the worst option I have ever seen, Some of us actualy use subdomains to host websites that are not related to the main site. We own the domain MS has no right to hide our subdomains. This is restraint of trade.
Worse still they even hide the page names. I don’t care if phishing is a problem this is not a way to stop it.

MS needs to understand that the website owners are the ones that push what browsers are used and this is making us mad.

Right now I have a message that is displayed to all IE8 users that they are not seeing the full domain name due to a bug in IE8.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 11:19:08 +0000

I noticed the domain name issue but it is nowhere near as annoying as the greyed print for comments on sympatico or msn pages.
Perhaps Microsnot would provide glasses to read it so my eyes aren’t strained.

Another “engineering” excercise to justify their exsistance.
Now put a option in options for this like say a patch.
Never happen now methinks, they are not interested. Pricks

By: Ericka

Ericka — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:19:08 +0000

I have a BIG problem with the fact that you can not disable this domain highlighting feature. I work in software support and have to use both test and production websites. The test website is abailable to me as test.domainname.com where production is http://www.domainname.com. This makes it entirely too difficult to determine which site I’m on because the only highlighted portion of the address bar is domainname.com. I downgraded back to 7.

By: Windows User

Windows User — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:57:03 +0000

I didn’t like this feature too. THE OTHER INFORMATIONS IN THE LINK ARE ALSO IMPORTANT TO ME!! I want to turn this off. The multicoloured tabs are also like I was in a Rave Party, at least I there’s an option to disable this one.

By: Kara

Kara — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:48:00 +0000

hahahahaha! Some comments are really funny.. well, I hope that Microsoft see these posts and provide any way to disable these “improvements”. Many people want the computer just running in a comfortable but simple and organized way.

By: Windows User

Windows User — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:31:14 +0000

I didn’t like this feature too. THE OTHER INFORMATIONS IN THE LINK ADDRESS ARE IMPORTANT TO ME TOO!! I want to turn this off. The multicoloured tabs are also like I was in a party, or something like that, at least you can disable this in the options.

By: hubert

hubert — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:25:48 +0000

I have poor eyesight.
This greyout feature means I uninstalled IE8.

Had I left it installed I would have been at a higher risk of phishing because it makes the url extremely difficult to read.

It probably seemed like a great idea at the product development meeting. Maybe next time Microsoft will stop pandering to infantalised consumers in the 12-18 demographic and actually consider the wide range of users from birth to death. Or is designing software too difficult?

Domain highlighting is the Edsel of Explorer.

By: Dalliann

Dalliann — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:43:53 +0000

I just upgraded to IE8 today and, after spending forty-five minutes disabling the massive amount of toolbars and options cluttering up the display, decided to do a search about how to disable ‘domain highlighting.’ Apparently, there is no such option. Lovely.

I’ve wasted an hour trying to make this display useable but that irritating address bar is unacceptable. It’s hard to read and doesn’t do me any favors- I’m perfectly capable of reading a domain name without assistance and would greatly appreciate being given the option to do so! Until IE8 provides a disable option for domain highlighting, I’m using Firefox.

And I see that I’m not the only one…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:13:38 +0000

Damn this is annoying. To make matters worse I’ve always found black text on a white background annoying, so the first thing I do when installing windows is to change the default background color to grey (with a slight touch of blue). Now the grey part of the url is all but invisible.

By: software developer

software developer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:14:19 +0000

…while mousing over the address bar …this feature gets disabled.
Hurray!! now I can always drag the cursor over to the address bar if I have to take a quick (I mean a quick) glance at the page I am on.
This doesnt help a lot either… because I might as well have selected the url to see it in white contrast with blue background.
Just the action of moving the mouse over to the address bar eveytime one has to read it clearly…can drive a sane person crazy.

By: software developer

software developer — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:05:45 +0000

What was the QA team doing in Microsoft while this annoyance was being introduced?

At least allow for the feature to be disabled. I need to be able to look at the entire URL while at work without squinting everytime to see which f*ing page I am working on in my domain.

Thanks but no thanks Microsoft

By: jasonrubik

jasonrubik — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:27:24 +0000

Yes, I too found this website when searching for a method to disable the dumbest thing ever to come out of Seattle.

I’ve seen it around the office on coworkers computers and can’t stand it. Most of them didn’t even realize anything was different. These clueless users are the ones that Microsoft was intending to help out perhaps… However, the dumb ones never look at the Address bar anyways, so what was the point!?!?!

And to have this slip through beta testing and make it to full release is one thing, but to not realize the frustration that it would cause to the “advanced users” (who happen to also be the ones who love to bash Microsoft on forums) and leave out that simple “Disable Domain Highlighting” checkbox is beyond me.

By: Caro

Caro — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:29:17 +0000

I’m glad to know I’m not the only one this annoys to no end!

When IE8 auto-installed on my laptop, I quickly uninstalled it, mostly because I found THIS quite annoying!

But now I’ve got a new computer too, and IE8 is what came with it. So, I don’t believe I can go ‘back’ to IE7 since there’s nothing to go ‘back’ to on this?? (Please tell me if i’m wrong! I’d LOVE to be wrong for once LOL!)

And… it really irritates me.
AND the fact that when I open new tabs, the tabs are COLOURED?! I mean, seriously!! Are Microsoft taking us for IDIOTS?!

*sigh*

I wish I could say I’m getting used to it, but I am not. At all.

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 07:38:43 +0000

I found this while searching for a way to turn this greying out of the address bar off. It’s really getting on my nerves.

There should be an option called “I’m not an imbecile, I know what a phishing link is, please trust me and allow me to see the address in one colour.”