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Friday, November 03, 2006

Internet Explorer 7

I realize that there has been some bashing of Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7) and features that it lacks and so forth and what not. I downloaded IE 7 about a week ago and so far I haven't encountered any bugs. Does that mean there aren't any? Of course there are bugs, but they haven't affected me with all my heavy use of the browser.

I really like the tabbed browser windows. This of course is pretty standard with browsers now. I also like the layout of the buttons and such, although it has taken me a bit to get used to since Microsoft moved stuff around a little bit. That is one of the things I've heard people complaining about. Who cares, things change, live with it. Someday browsing will be all voice commands, I'm sure those same people will balk at that when it's first being implemented.

I did download Mozilla FireFox 2 as well, and of course it is a great product. It has some very cool free pluggins that can be added on. And if I had time to play around with those pluggins I might use FireFox a little more. But for just using a browser to browse, IE 7 is great.

jeremy at 8:55 AM | (6) Comments | Add a comment | Permalink

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Matt Morrison said...

I strongly agree with this, I love IE7, I've been beta testing it since the early days and reported quite a few bugs so to use it now as a realease with all that fixed is great. Those same people that moan about things moving won't like Vista then, ha! Just try and get around MS Word, let alone ping an ipv4 address hehe! But they do these things for a reason you know, the new design of office follows workflow rather than bombarding you with everything at once. This is getting me geared up to making a Vista blog on my site because I haven't done that yet; firefox is great too. Have you tried the IE tab extention that renders pages using the IE engine but in firefox...cool stuff.

Friday, November 03, 2006 3:26 PM

Jeremy said...

I haven't tried that extension for IE rendering in FireFox. I am personally looking forward to Windows Vista. I'm a visual person, and Vista looks great. I installed Vista RC1 into MS Virtual PC so I could check it out. It is very different so people that don't like change are going to balk. I guarantee there are people that miss the old Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.

Friday, November 03, 2006 3:37 PM

Matt Morrison said...

Oh yes, I here you there! Can't wait for Vista too. Have you done any v3 framework coding yet? I just recently downloaded it and I'm looking at the ADO.NET Orcas samples.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:50 AM

jeremy said...

I haven't had enough time to explore the .Net Framework 3.0 yet. I had to look up Orcas because I wasn't sure what it was. I can hardly wait until I have time to dive into everything .Net 3.0.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 9:02 AM

Shanghai said...

I switched FF for a long time, almost forget IE browser now. By your testing, do you value it as FF? my IE experience: always die with many windows opened, no any tab as well.

Friday, September 03, 2010 7:55 AM

Scilf said...

I agree IE7 is great and I still am using it today I upgraded to 8 but, it would crash all the time. Maybe it works better on Windows 7 but I don't have the money to upgrade operating systems again. I use FF from time to time but prefer IE7 to the rest of them.

Saturday, September 04, 2010 12:49 AM