Windows 10: Spartan

Discus and support Spartan in Browsers and Email to solve the problem; Some observations: - the scroll bar track is translucent, and - if you idle your cursor, wait for the scroll bar to disappear, then scroll again... Discussion in 'Browsers and Email' started by Dude, Mar 30, 2015.

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  1. EDWIN
    Edwin New Member

    Spartan


    Some observations:

    - the scroll bar track is translucent, and
    - if you idle your cursor, wait for the scroll bar to disappear, then scroll again without moving your cursor, the scroll bar becomes thin and trackless.
    - moving your cursor over a video, (YouTube for starters), it stutters like crazy unless you turn off the Flash Player in settings and go HTML
    - media will NOT keep playing with Spartan minimized to the taskbar.
    - YouTube videos don't actually go full screen.
     
    Edwin, Apr 1, 2015
    #76
  2. WYNONA
    Wynona Win User

    Normally, in Windows 10, I can right click on an app and then click on "Open File Location", and add it to my Quick Launch Bar, but when I try that with Spartan, it just will not work. I get Unpin from Start, Pin to Taskbar and Uninstall; no way to Open File Location so I can pin it to QL. *Sad

    Sooooooo, I searched for and finally found Spartan (Microsoft seems to want to hide everything from me!). There are three "applications", Spartan (with a little green and white box), Spartan Edge (with an open globe) and Spartan Legacy (with an open globe). So I pinned them one at the time to Quick Launch, and one after the other, they refused to open Spartan for me!

    Secondly, I cannot find any setting to make Spartan my default browser so I can actually test it. So far, the only way to open Spartan is from that joke of a Start Menu. *Sad It won't even open when I click on the three apps!

    Going into Internet Options (which I can't seem to find in Spartan), it shows that every page is set up to open in IE. IOW, if I click on a link in one of the posts here, IE instead of Spartan will be opened and will then take me to where I want to go. How'm I gonna test!?
     
    Wynona, Apr 2, 2015
    #77
  3. EDWIN
    Edwin New Member
    Wynona:

    Open a 'Run' box, type: shell:appsfolder then Enter, look for Project Spartan, right click on it and choose 'Create Shortcut', should be on your desktop, rename it to whatever you wish, cut and paste it into your quick launch folder.


    Spartan [​IMG]
     
    Edwin, Apr 2, 2015
    #78
  4. EDWIN
    Edwin New Member

    Spartan

    Set Spartan as your default browser in Control Panel/Default Programs/Set your default programs/Project Spartan/Set this program as default/OK
     
    Edwin, Apr 2, 2015
    #79
  5. ADAMF
    adamf Win User
    You have to set "Project Spartan" as default (not "Spartan"). EDIT - Beaten to it by Edwin *Smile


    Spartan [​IMG]
     
    adamf, Apr 2, 2015
    #80
  6. EDWIN
    Edwin New Member
    You provided the visuals! *Wink
     
    Edwin, Apr 2, 2015
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  7. WINUSER
    Winuser Win User
    Noticed a few problems with Spartan's reader view. Reader view doesn't work on all web pages. Some times it doesn't show all the post. It caused me to lose my browsing history so I couldn't use the forward/backwards arrows. I have been testing in TenForums.
     
    Winuser, Apr 2, 2015
    #82
  8. WINUSER
    Winuser Win User

    Spartan

    I found another bug in Spartan. I can't change the printer settings under More settings in Spartan.
     
    Winuser, Apr 2, 2015
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  9. MYSTERE
    Mystere Win User
    It's important to differentiate between "Bug" and "Not Implemented yet". Many features you might expect in a finished product aren't yet implemented, or fully implemented. That doesn't mean they're a bug, it just means they haven't got to finishing that feature yet.
     
    Mystere, Apr 2, 2015
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  10. CLIFF S
    Cliff S New Member
    This paragraph need to be made into a "sticky" because it sums up everything Technical Preview.
     
    Cliff S, Apr 2, 2015
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  11. WINUSER
    Winuser Win User
    When I click on the Downloads arrow I get the message "Soon, this will be the place to see what your downloading. We'll give you an update when things are ready, but until then, go to File Explorer>Downloads" . That's because it isn't implemented yet. When I go to the More setting option under printers it let's me make the changes it just won't let me save and print. I consider this a bug because there is no message stating that this feature will be added later. I really don't care what you call it.
     
    Winuser, Apr 2, 2015
    #86
  12. BADROBOT
    badrobot Win User
    Doodling (with Wacom pen and tablet) on Spartan is a little bit smoother after the clean install.


    Spartan [​IMG]
     
    badrobot, Apr 2, 2015
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  13. JIMBO45
    jimbo45 Win User

    Spartan

    Hi there

    Another bug I think -- you can't set to "Compatibility mode" == this means that you can't for example copy the URL from a site and post it into a post on the forum when adding to a thread.

    (In IE11 on build 10041 I had to switch to compatibility mode to get URL's to be able to copy and paste into Forum Posts).

    Cheers

    jimbo
     
    jimbo45, Apr 3, 2015
    #88
  14. BADROBOT
    badrobot Win User
    Yeah. I was just about to post that. When you paste a URL, it kind of freezes for a bit. And when it did, it goes somewhere else. Not where you pasted it.
     
    badrobot, Apr 3, 2015
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  15. SLARTYBART
    Slartybart Win User
    and that it disappears if you wait for a few seconds without any mouse actions.
     
    Slartybart, Apr 3, 2015
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