Internet Explorer 7 released

[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!

[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!

[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.

[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!

Hey I said TAKE THIS !!!

[BDC]

Of course Opera's smaller operating base makes it safer simply because it is less of a target...

[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*"

[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.

[edyzmedieval]

So, how good is the new IE7? Downloading now.

[gunslinger]

I downloaded IE7, and I'm enjoying it very much. I tried downloading FF a few times, and it never worked. (my fault, I'm sure)

The tabs take a few minutes to figure out, but basically, if you click the center button on a link, you get the link in a new tab. Very useful if you're shopping, or if you're reading an article and see a hyperlink you want to check out AFTER you finish the current article. Say you are reading about new graphics cards at the org, and you want to check out prices on the new model at e-bay, you can just type"ebay" into the address bar, then hold down control and alt while you press enter, and ebay will pop up in a different tab.

Another very cool feature that I discovered accidentally is that you can "hide" the address bar and all of the buttons at the top of the screen. It's sort of like hiding your windows taskbar. If you put your cursor at the top of the screen, all of the buttons will slide down. If you move your cursor away from the top of the screen, the whole monitor is filled with just the web page. Sorry, but I can't tell you how to do this, as I have no idea how I did it myself.

The download is pretty fast, about 14mb at around 75k. However, the installation takes about twice as long as the download.