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Browsers: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7?
- 10/19/06 6:39 PM
What IE7 Does that Firefox Doesn't
by fsheparddavis - 11/1/06 4:12 AM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteFirefox won't print with my computer. I've done enough research to see that it's a fairly common problem, and that no one is bothering to fix it. For instance, it'll print the header for my e-mails, but not the body. So, thank goodness for IE7. The new browser was a monster when I first downloaded it, absolutely killing any performance from my PC. I hated it. The upgrade that came 10 days later fixed all of that, and it's doing great now. I'm very happy with it.
Best,
Fred
Printer problems with Firefox?
by rhomp2002 - 11/1/06 7:48 AM In reply to: What IE7 Does that Firefox Doesn't by fsheparddavisWhat kind of printer re you using that you can't print with Firefox? I have had absolutely no problems with printing from Firefox at all and I have been using it for 2 years.
What site?
by Racc - 11/2/06 9:40 AM In reply to: What IE7 Does that Firefox Doesn't by fsheparddavisThat sounds like a broken site problem. Your e-mail server is probably not W3C compliant.
Like IE a lot better than!!!
by r_rayjr - 11/1/06 4:33 AM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteI have used Firefox, Opera and Netscape. I like IE better than any of them. I do not really care that much for the IE 7 right now. But it might just take some getting use to the setup. I think it would be better if I could move things around to where I want them. But other than that I guess it is OK. I know that I will NEVER switch to Firefox or Opera. Sure it had somethings that I liked about it. But I had to many problems with it and other things about them that I did not like. And I am not saying that I could not use it. In fact I could get around it in the Classes that I took in college that was teaching us about these other browsers, better than most of the other students. But I just did not like it...
Who needs microsoft?
by mbwizca - 11/1/06 7:46 AM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteI have all of my 226 customers switch to Firefox over a year ago.now version 2 is even better. to what I have seen so far, IE7 is still not there yet! Besides, what do you tell a customer that has no more problem because they are using Firefox? What will a customer tell you if you tell him to switch back to IE? answer!What for??? What are the risks??
not me
by kenkeller - 11/1/06 7:14 PM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteI agree. Firefox has had tabbed browsing for how many years? - and IE is just getting around to it. This to me is one of the most important features in a browser. There are some sites (esp financial sites) that now will not accept my current version of Firefox. So I will probably download the updated Firefox, not IE7.
Hoo kares
by blue_bullet - 11/1/06 7:48 PM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteWell, MS seems to have bamboozled a number of financial intstitutions. They warn against downloading IE7 until they can make it work at home. So much for sharing software with users/vendors before a release. It is almost like the Windoz operating system was invented in Daddy's garage. Of course then they got more practice subcontracting out programming support for the now defunct but still operating OS/2 (despite IBM's lack of support) OS/2. Call me bitter. Go with Firefox!
Don't even axe me about VM/CMS.
Who Cares?: Ludites and Bill Gates
by dgbvan - 11/2/06 3:45 AM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteI do not have any intention of using IE7 anytime soon. Of course, sooner or later, I will be forced to succumb to the beast since, even today, I continue to runinto websites that claim not to render properly without IE5.5 or later (and I suspect these sites will shortly demand IE7). One of these retrogressive sites is the various tentacles of Google! I find this particulalry galling since I have always considereed Google to be fairly cutting edge. Oh well! Even the leaders get lazy from time to time.
I have looked at IE7 and, frankly, I do not think the implementation is up to the mark as compared to the browsers that I most usually use.
OPERA is far and away my favorite browser. It does everything so well that I seldom have any need for another browser. However, I have used Opera for a l-o-n-g time, so I continually update and check out several other browsers. But, absolutely, Opera is in a class of its own when it comes to downloads. Nothing - nothing is in the same league!
Browser number 2 on my hit parade is AVANT. It is almost as good as Opera, faster than Firefox and has a good (if not great) implementation of tabs. Now, some may say that is lacks the customizability of Firefox and Opera. I suggest that you look into it more deeply.
I have used FIREFOX since its first public beta release. It is reasonably good, but not a match for Opera when it comes to speed. (Actually, nothing can compare with the speed of Opera!) Also, its treatment of tabs is a bit clunky.
I also use Netscape, Mozilla and Advanced Browsers. I find a place for all of them. I have tried several other browsers, however, I have uninstalled these assorted items as I saw no compelling reason to use up hard drive real estate on them, at this time. I still check them out from time to time.
My advice to anyone considering downloading and installing IE7 - "give it a pass and have a go with Opera, Avant or Firefox." If you chose to ignore my advice, good luck!
same thing
by jennesy - 11/2/06 3:29 PM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteI agree. It looks so similar to Firefox that I forgot I was even using IE on my computer at work. Out of habit I did the ctrl-T command to open a new tab like in Firefox. The one thing that I do like about the new IE is that you can see all of your tabs open in one window (quick tabs). Maybe you can already do this in FF already, though. I'm sticking to Firefox, and not downloading IE on my home computer.
I have to agree with you
by ddhboy - 11/4/06 10:23 AM In reply to: Who cares by drbigbyteWhat microsft seems to have always done with Interent explorer was play catch up. Still you have to remember this is free software comming from microsoft. Its not ment to be explicitly cutting edge, rather its for people who don't know anything about the web or alternative web browsers. Becides I'm tending to stay away from this one since I am currently happy with Firefox and god knows how long it will be until the first major security hole in this one will be revealed.
Where are my cookies??
by flnettles - 10/31/06 7:53 PM In reply to: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7? by John.Wilkinson
What I REALLY don't like about EI7 is that I apparently can't save or enable cookies to save my user name and password on all my most commonly used sites! If anyone knows how I can reactivate this feature please post here or better still, email me at flnettles@hotmail.com Thanks!
What's not to like?
by riverratfl - 10/31/06 8:13 PM In reply to: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7? by John.Wilkinson
It kept locking up and now I am running Firefox!
TVguy
Problem with too many allow-scripts dialog box pop-ups
by elceres4medctr - 10/31/06 8:35 PM In reply to: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7? by John.Wilkinson
My major complaint with IE7 is an odd one. With IE6 I would average maybe 3 pop-up dialog boxes asking me if I wanted to or not to allow scripting. In addition maybe there would be one asking if I wanted to allow plug in's. With IE7 I get a few more than that. Would you believe when trying to reach this forum I got over 30 such pop-up boxes? Even when I make the site a trusted one I average about a dozen or more. Does anyone know what is going on here? It's driving me just nuts enough to warrant returning to IE6 even though it doesn't have the one feature I like a lot--the zoom level feature. If anyone doesn't realize what I'm talking about, each dialog box requires my clicking on it which slows the browsing to a crawl.
If you dont have XP you can not use it
by RedHourGlass - 10/31/06 8:42 PM In reply to: What do you like/dislike about Internet Explorer 7? by John.Wilkinson
I reaaly think that it really sucks You Can use it with Xp and I hate XP So whats good about a program
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