Community poll forum: Will you download and use Internet Explorer 7?

The new IE7 is great. It works, which is much more than I can say for Firefox 2.0, which promptly crashed immediately after being installed.

I did download IE 7 and I hated it. I found you can't do some of the things you can with IE 6. So I will not use IE 7.

IE is the most inefficient, buggy,useless piece of software ever cobbled together!.
If there was any justice it would be banned worldwide.
Compared to Firefox, it is a load of junk!

i agree totally....ei is garbage....fire fox rules

Yes, I will happily use IE7 when the following ten events happen, or the top 10 reason NOT to use IE7:

10. Microsoft put out an OS that is mostly error free and secure [please see number 1. above.]
9. IE7 is bug free, and totally secure [again see number 1. above.]
8. Law passed requiring IE7 use only.
7. Microsoft is the ONLY software available.
6. Forced to use a regular Windows [windoze] based PC.
5. Firefox, Opera, or Netscape are no longer available.
4. Forced to use it because a Internet site is only viewable with it, [then I really don't care about that site anyway.]
3. Microsoft will pay me to use IE7 just like it did for email tracking.
2. Apple stops making computers.
1. When an eternally hot region freezes over [ie. hades/heck freezes over.]

At the moment I use Win2000Pro and IE7 does not operate on Win2000. If I am forced to change, I will go for LINUX/Firefox and say goodbye to Win2000.
These kind of actions only bring me closer to finally saying goodbye to MS.

I agree with you, more browsers should have been listed. One other browser which should also be included is Avant browser since it is listed as one of the 3 most popular browsers on Cnet. Avant (up to Version 10 build 52) is my choice over IE (Version 6 & 7) and Firefox 2. I don't like Firefox's and IE7'S search dialog box being in the upper right hand corner. People read from left to right so why not have the option to click on the search button in IE and have a dialog box open up on the right hand side of the browser like Avant does. The biggest thing I didn't like about FireFox (any version) is the unability to display my Favoites in multiple columns. I have, and I'm sure others do, any where from 50 to 100s of "Favorite" yet Avant is the only browser I've found that displays them in multiple columns. In Firefox and IE you have to scroll down through your list.

Because I did it twice and seen my computers stucks as IE6 was better off with my system and when it comes to uninstall it does not replace the IE6 back as it was been removed during IE7 installation so all icons and file extension of IE7 remains in the system where IE6 finds more difficult to run!

As some hardware I use is not supported by XP I will not be upgrading from W2K and I cannot run IE7 on W2K.

Yes, I've downloaded it and installed it, and I use it when I'm forced to: there are still sites out there that are not Firefox-friendly.

What I like about it: it finally has tabbed browsing. It's more secure than IE 6.

It's still insecureinsecureinsecureinsecureinsecureinsecure.

To paraphrase a comment made by someone else regarding IE7 - it is just a 'bandage' to lessen the bleeding that Firefox and other superior browsers have inflicted to IE's market share. IE7's awesome new features are old news for other browsers that have been around for a considerable amount of time already, and it still doesn't hold a candle for web standards support. It is also restricted to just one OS, while alternatives are cross platform. IE7 was originally intended for Vista, but released prematurely for WinXP as a stopgap solution.

I see no need to 'upgrade' to XP or Vista. Win2k does 95% of what XP can do without the extra bloat, and for what features XP has, there are third party programs for Win2k that do it twice as good (firewall, file extractor, anti-malware, etc).

I ditched IE6 long ago switching to Mozilla, then to Firebird which became Firefox and never looked back. Considering how after they won the browser war, M$ became complacent and let IE6 rot into a buggy, vulnerable mess. Would you really want to go back to them? What do you think will happen if IE7 were to reclaim the browser share?

From all I have read from others here and CNET's
comparison of IE and Firefox, I am going to
hold off until I dont have a choice due to the
next ms operating system or something similar .
moveing the buttons I use most will mess me up to
much to get over it - be cussing it out too much hahaha
I use the back button and refresh a LOT on ebay
A LOT !!!!
and the pull down between the back and forward so
I can jump back to a given point without using back
numerouse times.
I havent heard anything about 7 that is better or
more wow to entice me yet.

no, will not, I downloaded it and it threw my whole machine into shambles, I messed with it for days trying to configure with no luck then its just cost me 94 GBPoumds to get it fixed,by the PC guy,I a ma pensioner and do not need this expense
Pearl

I use IE 7 for several months now and I must say:
Its not ready yet!!!
It uses not the standard fonts Microsoft uses in all its other products. Most IE7 fonts are thinner. IE 7 does not handle many favicons correctly and has several other minor flaws.
So my advise is: not yet recommended, no stars earned yet!!!

kind regards to you all,
Hans.
PE1MMK

I do a lot of online business, including bill pays. IE7 is constantly crashing; I keep getting the Shut Down notice.
And Firefox doesn't open many of my favorite sites. Same with Netscape. So now am using Opera. Much faster..but still has kinks. Best one: I also have an iMac OSX, and Safari is fast, bug-free, and super easy.