Internet Explorer 7 released

[DukeofSerbia]

Opera 9 rulls. Firefox 1.5 is second. I will never use IE; only if I can't choose the other two.

[caravel]

I've never liked Opera. When there's Firefox I don't see the need for it. I find it slightly overweight and containing 'features' that I never used. I may be biased though, as I remember the days when it was ad funded and came complete with banners or text ad links. This was reason enough to use Firefox.

I've installed IE 7 on a PC at work. Instead of using the explorer shell it has it's own shell (going back to the IE 3 days) which seems ok. Also if you open a windows explorer window and enter say "www.totalwar.org" nothing happens within that explorer window, and your default browser (in my case firefox) opens at that page. Before using IE 4/5/6 it would have opened it in the explorer window, turning that window into an IE window. This seems like a removal of the shell integration, or have M$ simply 'disabled' it?

[LeftEyeNine]

Max-thon !

Don't make me repeat it again..

[Lemur]

Don't make me repeat it again..

I'm sorry, what was it you said?

[LeftEyeNine]

Next time you quote someone, hit Ctrl-A and paste that, Lemur-boy.

[Husar]

Opera 9 rulls. Firefox 1.5 is second. I will never use IE; only if I can't choose the other two.

Psht, the less people use Opera, the less hackers will try to hack it.

[DukeofSerbia]

Psht, the less people use Opera, the less hackers will try to hack it.

Exactly. That's why I use it, except some pages don't work on Opera corectly.

[Husar]

Exactly. That's why I use it, except some pages don't work on Opera corectly.

That's because some people use outdated and/or dangerous stuff to design their websites.

[DukeofSerbia]

I always liked Firefox but on weaker computer is just slow. Opera is the fastest and the most secured.

[lars573]

Opera isn't that great, you drop my IE bookmarks you get. IE7 isn't perfect either. I'm using right now. My only bitch is that links still open a new browser window instead of a new tab. Go to all the trouble of putting in tabs and then not use them effectively. M$ yeesh!

[x-dANGEr]

Opera isn't that great, you drop my IE bookmarks you get. IE7 isn't perfect either. I'm using right now. My only bitch is that links still open a new browser window instead of a new tab. Go to all the trouble of putting in tabs and then not use them effectively. M$ yeesh!

Try clicking the scroll wheel when the mouse is over a link.

[caravel]

I always liked Firefox but on weaker computer is just slow. Opera is the fastest and the most secured.

Opera is on the whole faster than Firefox, Mozilla and M$IE when running on Win32. Firefox does run faster on Linux though. The problem is that, in basic terms, extra security always comes at a performance cost. I use Firefox because I prefer it's simple but effective cookie control, clean lines and general flexibility. I dislike Opera's configuration options. I don't feel the need to switch to Opera to gain a few fractions of a second in speed either. I have to disagree with the quoted comment also. Firefox is not that much slower than Opera as to make it unusable on a low end machine. I do think that Firefox has got progressively slower with each new version however.

[Xiahou]

I coulda sworn I'd seen IE7 months ago... one of my customers was showing it off to me. My reaction was something to the effect of "Wow, it finally has features that FireFox has had for years. *yawn*"

[gunslinger]

According to the article, IE7 will be downloaded in an automatic update, so there's no reason to go out and download it myself. Am I reading this correctly?

[Lemur]

That's right, Microsoft will be rolling it out to users via autoupdates over the next two months. And I don't think it's going to install automatically -- it will ask first. And you can re-install IE 6, so all is not lost.

Who knows, maybe they'll make something good of it. Personally, I will stick with the Fox for my browsing. Version 2.0 should be out tomorrow!

[LeftEyeNine]

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Who knows, maybe they'll make something good of it. Personally, I will stick with the Fox for my browsing. Version 2.0 should be out tomorrow!

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