Internet Explorer just did an upgrade and I'm trying it out now. Newest feature is the tabs and so it looks just like Firefox now. Also noted it uses a different font. It's supposed to be safer but we will see. I use Firefox once in a while for comparison's sake but find that it hangs at times. Have you tried it yet and what do you think so far?
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Tried it accidentally - wasn't paying attention to the automatic downloads from Microsoft assuming they were simply security upgrades. 
I had to remove it after it caused several other programs to no longer work properly.
Not only did I have to remove IE7, I then had to remove, re-install and reconfigure some essential (for me) programs that I use regularly before I could get them to work properly again.
Thanks Microsoft for wasting 3 hours of my life.
Anyone thinking of trying it who has a lot of software on their computers (especially any software that uses internet explorer as part of that software) might want to give it a few months for others to find the bugs and work them out.
I had to remove it after it caused several other programs to no longer work properly. Not only did I have to remove IE7, I then had to remove, re-install and reconfigure some essential (for me) programs that I use regularly before I could get them to work properly again.
Thanks Microsoft for wasting 3 hours of my life.
Anyone thinking of trying it who has a lot of software on their computers (especially any software that uses internet explorer as part of that software) might want to give it a few months for others to find the bugs and work them out.
Well I just installed it and have used it for 15 minutes. So far it's mostly just irritating me.
I set up IE6 so all the buttons I needed were installed on the very top along with the drop down menus. So I had more real estate for the web page. IE7 doesn't even have drop down menus, everything is a dumb button on the screen so you need them there taking up space. Now I lose about 10% of the real estate to this. The layout seems a bit "fad-like" to me. I'd like all my applications to look and act the same please, don't fuck with standards unless you are really improving something.
The favourites is also annoying. Before yould easily browse your subfolders without clicking anything, now you have to go and click each folder to see what is in it. That's just idiotic non-ergonomic design.
The tabs are a nice change to avoid task bar pollution. However, they work inconsistently, web sites that are designed to open new windows still do so instead of opening a new tab.
One of the web sites I view was also rendered all messed up. Could be IE6 was just making it look right out of dumb luck though.
Perhaps messing around with configurations I can change IE7 to be happy with it but so far it seems like a step back and if I'd known I probably would have stuck with IE6. Oh well you have to move with it or it will leave you behind I guess.
I set up IE6 so all the buttons I needed were installed on the very top along with the drop down menus. So I had more real estate for the web page. IE7 doesn't even have drop down menus, everything is a dumb button on the screen so you need them there taking up space. Now I lose about 10% of the real estate to this. The layout seems a bit "fad-like" to me. I'd like all my applications to look and act the same please, don't fuck with standards unless you are really improving something.
The favourites is also annoying. Before yould easily browse your subfolders without clicking anything, now you have to go and click each folder to see what is in it. That's just idiotic non-ergonomic design.
The tabs are a nice change to avoid task bar pollution. However, they work inconsistently, web sites that are designed to open new windows still do so instead of opening a new tab.
One of the web sites I view was also rendered all messed up. Could be IE6 was just making it look right out of dumb luck though.
Perhaps messing around with configurations I can change IE7 to be happy with it but so far it seems like a step back and if I'd known I probably would have stuck with IE6. Oh well you have to move with it or it will leave you behind I guess.
