2006-12-22

MSIE Autocomplete Annoyance

I had accidentally typed the wrong URL for my test system into MSIE6 one day and whenever I try to visit the same site, MSIE6's autocomplete feature would NOT let me change the URL. The wrong URL I first entered was local:7001/ when I meant localhost:7001/. Now, each time I try to enter localhost:7001/, MSIE6 would replace what I typed with local:7001/.

There's no way to delete that URL in the address (unlike Firefox, Shift-Delete doesn't work for MSIE6's address bar). So I used the Clear History feature in MSIE6 and blew away my history.

Then I found that auto-complete not longer had previously entered folder paths in Windows Explorer nor the name of programs in the Windows Run dialog. This is definitely unexpected and very annoying.

2006-12-04

Weblogic Console Firefox incompatibility

After trying to add users to more than one group in the Weblogic console for half an hour and receiving this cryptic error each time ...

<BEA-240003> <Console encountered the following error weblogic.management.utils.NotFoundException: [Security:090259]Group undefined
...

... it dawned on me that no one else on site had encountered this problem. I switched from Firefox to Internet Explorer and the problem vanished.

31 Jan 2007: Note to myself. This problem occurred with Weblogic 9.1 and Firefox 2.0.