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How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.

Thank you.

DSH
 
When I installed it on my desktop running XP, it caused Windows Moviemaker
to crash every time I tried to open it. I reverted to IE 6 and everything
was OK. On my laptop with Vista, IE 7 works OK, but it's missing some of
the features I like in Firefox, which I use as my default.

Bob
 
D. Spencer Hines said:
How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.

Thank you.

DSH
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Very well, thank you. Websites pop right in. Most sites work very well. On
my AMD [750MB RAM], when I have several windows open each with dozens of
tabs going I sometimes get to a point where IE7 refuses to open new tabs
until I close a few. But that might be by design (?). Otherwise it is so
easy to use. I have yet to run into such a limit on my Intel [3GB RAM].

When I first tried IE7 [when it was in Beta] I balked. I wanted it to be IE6
in a sense in that I was used to things being in certain places etc. But
once I got going on it, I found IE7 more intuitively designed than IE6 and
easier and quicker. I think it is a really fine improvement.

There's a local library that uses FF. I found I don't like FF - especially
when compared to IE7. IE7 is much better.
 
No complaints. Though the one in Vista seems a little slower than the one in
XP. (But then again, that could be because I didn't have any temporary
Internet files in Vista when I first got started).

I like being able to search History and Favorites from the Start menu.

I like the little Zoom button in the Status bar because it lets you click to
cycle through 100%, 125%, and 150% magnifications.

Clicking the mouse wheel to open a page in a new tab is nice. Multiple homes
pages on tabs and the CTRL+Q/Quick Tabs thing are nice.

The little Recent Pages button next to Forward is handy.

RSS Feeds are simple to manage.

Multiple search engines from the Search box is a good thing.

No complaints I guess.
 
Thanks.

Are you using IE7 with XP or Vista on both machines?

3 GB of RAM certainly makes things easier.

DSH

How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.

Thank you.

DSH
Click to expand...
Very well, thank you. Websites pop right in. Most sites work very well. On
my AMD [750MB RAM], when I have several windows open each with dozens of
tabs going I sometimes get to a point where IE7 refuses to open new tabs
until I close a few. But that might be by design (?). Otherwise it is so
easy to use. I have yet to run into such a limit on my Intel [3GB RAM].

When I first tried IE7 [when it was in Beta] I balked. I wanted it to be
IE6 in a sense in that I was used to things being in certain places etc.
But once I got going on it, I found IE7 more intuitively designed than IE6
and easier and quicker. I think it is a really fine improvement.

There's a local library that uses FF. I found I don't like FF - especially
when compared to IE7. IE7 is much better.
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Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...
How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability,
features -- those sorts of things.
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Spence, IE7 to me is a micro-Vista - I cannot figure out reliably
what the advantages are alleged to be, never mind any downsides. I
know that to resist new things is to die, but I also don't fix
things not really broken. One thing I DO know, IE7 ain't going on
either of my two PCs without my permission, sort of like the guy
who says "the only way you'll get my gun is to pry it out of my
cold, dead fingers!". It isn't that I am anti-IE7, I just don't
know what I may or may not be missing. Seems you're just as
confused.
 
"D. Spencer Hines" <[email protected]>'s wild thoughts
were released on Wed, 7 Mar 2007 15:36:58 -0000 bearing the
following fruit:
How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.
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Once tabbed browsing came around I moved away from IE7
completely. I now choose IE7 over firefox. Opera is still my
first choice though.
 
I get the growing impression that IE 7 is designed for Vista and doesn't
really work very well in XP.

DSH
 
Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...
I get the growing impression that IE 7 is designed for Vista
and doesn't really work very well in XP.
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I don't have that view exactly, Spence. There was a growing
controversy during IE7's beta and lots of people got wrapped up
in what I call a feeding frenzy to be the first to upgrade. Well,
MS made it trivially easy - if you weren't paying attention, e.g.
you had updates set to "automatic" in XP, right now you would be
on IE7. Even with my "ask first, do not download or install", I
still got strong-armed until I "convinced" the update system to
leave me alone.

That said, I neither know the numbers of XP installs nor the
"features" of IE7. I have heard both good and bad and about the
only way to find out for myself is to buy a book, haunt the MS KB
for fixes, then let 'er rip - but first, setting a System Restore
Point myself AND doing a full image backup in case I either don't
like it or don't like what it does to my system. Yes, I am overly
cautious ...

Now, was it designed for Vista? Maybe, I don't know. Can't find
that out either.
 
Now, was it designed for Vista? Maybe, I don't know. Can't find
that out either.
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One of the annoyances of IE 7 is that when I add the "read mail" icon to the
command bar, clicking on it gives an error message "cannot start Microsoft
Outlook". Curious that if IE 7 was really designed to go with Vista that it
would not include an icon to open the Vista Mail application!
 
D. Spencer Hines said:
Thanks.

Are you using IE7 with XP or Vista on both machines?

3 GB of RAM certainly makes things easier.

DSH

How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.

Thank you.

DSH
Click to expand...
Very well, thank you. Websites pop right in. Most sites work very well.
On my AMD [750MB RAM], when I have several windows open each with dozens
of tabs going I sometimes get to a point where IE7 refuses to open new
tabs until I close a few. But that might be by design (?). Otherwise it
is so easy to use. I have yet to run into such a limit on my Intel [3GB
RAM].

When I first tried IE7 [when it was in Beta] I balked. I wanted it to be
IE6 in a sense in that I was used to things being in certain places etc.
But once I got going on it, I found IE7 more intuitively designed than
IE6 and easier and quicker. I think it is a really fine improvement.

There's a local library that uses FF. I found I don't like FF -
especially when compared to IE7. IE7 is much better.
Click to expand...


Both. I have IE7 running on Windows XP and Windows Vista.
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D. Spencer Hines said:
How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.

Thank you.

DSH
Click to expand...

It works fine, but I still prefer FireFox, both under XP and Vista.
 
D. Spencer Hines said:
How are people finding they like IE 7 ?...

Capabilities, limitations, speed, ease of use, reliability, features --
those sorts of things.
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I found it to work fine with Vista...
but caused problems on many XP machines
 
D. Spencer Hines said:
I get the growing impression that IE 7 is designed for Vista and doesn't
really work very well in XP.

DSH
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Nonsense. It works just fine on XP. It doesn't work exactly the same on XP
though, as it does on Vista. On Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista, the
default sets IE7 to run in Protected Mode. This "sandboxes" IE7 so that it
will write only to specific areas on the harddrive and to a certain set of
Registry keys [ give or take :) ]. The idea is that sandboxing IE7's
operations makes using IE7 a safer proposition. But otherwise, one would
notice few differences.

I've noticed that when people first go to use it - and I was like this - the
arrangement of the buttons and bars is found disconcerting. However, as many
as were disconcerted have reported that once one gets used to it, it gets
better for them, seems intuitive, and the package becomes generally liked
more than IE6.

One can operate IE7's tabbing with the middle mouse button / scroll wheel.
Many scroll-wheel mouses enable you to 'click' the scroll-wheel. This is
quite handy in operating IE7's tab features.
 
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