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Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: 88turbo on October 24, 2006, 06:13:18 PM
Just wondering if anyone else is using this,  not sure if I like it and I dont know if I can get IE6 back  :grinno:
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: SSX on October 24, 2006, 07:35:42 PM
I have been using it for a few weeks...and it's broken already.  I have completely lost the tabs and toolbar.  All I have is the menubar, which I have to press Alt to access (I think it's too ugly to have it shown all the time, and it wasn't a problem before the toolbar died)  One of these days I will try to fix it.  I tried reinstalling and it didn't help.  Next step is uninstalling then reinstalling, and if that doesn't work, i'm going back to 6.
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: 88turbo on October 24, 2006, 08:44:04 PM
changed back to IE 6
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: CougarSE on October 24, 2006, 09:31:09 PM
IE 7 is the shiz, I've been using it for a long while.  It and Firefox 2.0
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Bob on October 24, 2006, 10:03:12 PM
I didn't like it this morning but now its starting to grow on me...
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: CougarSE on October 24, 2006, 10:26:38 PM
I will never use a browser without tabs again... so much easier to navigate.
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: 88turbo on October 24, 2006, 10:28:54 PM
lol, I thought that part was nice but I didnt like the navigation buttons and why arent you ever on msn Claude.... :beatyoass:<----- Thats from Sher...
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Thunder Chicken on October 24, 2006, 11:15:33 PM
I used it for about three minutes, then discovered that it borked my Mitchell OnDemand. I didn't much like it anyway - I dain't play with it much, but I didn't like the fact that it always asked me whether to open a popup, rather than giving me an "always allow popups for this site" option. My start page is a page I made myself, stored on my hard drive, with links to all my favourite sites, and I made this start page so that it opens the links in a  new window (or tab). IE would simply NOT accept the fact that popups were OK by me, and would not let me make it so. I found it rather stupid that it would take such an aggresive stance against "active" popups anyway. I can see blocking popups that load automatically when a page loads, or when it is closed, but blocking popups when a mouse click requests them is stupid. Many sites open a popup when a certain option is selected, including this one (when you click on "manage atachments"). It's annoying to have to give permission every ed time.

Luckily it uninstalled just as easily as it installed.

I use Firefox
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: CougarSE on October 25, 2006, 09:16:29 AM
Have you used firefox 2.0?
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Thunder Chicken on October 25, 2006, 09:56:24 AM
Not yet, nope. How is it?
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Thunder Chicken on October 25, 2006, 10:22:29 AM
Nevermind, I'm running it now. It's been officially released
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: SSX on October 25, 2006, 11:49:07 AM
Well I uninstalled IE7, restarted, checked that I had IE6. Good.  So I thought I'd give IE7 one more chance for the tabs to work again.  Reinstalled IE7, restarted.  Open IE7, no tabs.  I figured I'd uninstall it this morning, left the computer running overnight (like normal) woke up this morning and the tabs are back, how bizzarre.  So, for now, I like IE7.
Title: IE7 vs. FF2
Post by: Ether947 on November 23, 2006, 01:57:15 PM
I am a long time Firefox/Mozilla user who truly dislikes IE period. And I hate to say it but IE is starting to win me over. The new tab button is pretty sweet and I really like the thumbnail preview tab. Not to mention it is faster than the previous IEs. Firefox 2 is constantly locking up on me on a regular basis. If it wasn't for FF's sweet right click options I'd drop it right now... or at least until an update is released. But this comp won't pass validation yet so I'm stuck with Firefox 2. :grinno:
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Thunder Chicken on November 23, 2006, 05:48:15 PM
Apparently MS has decided that IE7 is a "critical update". I keep getting the "New updates are ready to install" system tray notification. I wonder if the final release version works any better with Mitchell OnDemand? I guess I'll find out eventually...
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: xr7cat on November 24, 2006, 01:38:19 AM
I just plain don't like IE, and I never use it unless I have to do something windows related... which is hardly ever... no Firefox 2 is the best I have used so far... that and maxthon.
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: Ether947 on November 26, 2006, 07:58:57 PM
Ugh... is anyone else having problems with FF2? It is locking up on me almost everytime I fire it up. Makes me wonder why session restore was added in the first place.
Title: Internet Explorer 7
Post by: 85turbotbird on November 27, 2006, 08:01:19 PM
bah, I'll pass on IE 7 and Firefox 2.0, for the time being...on Firefox v1.5.8 until more of the extensions/themes come compatible with the new Firefox without having to go thru the gay compatability check everytime to launch the browser!