Internet Explorer 7??

Anyone switched over to Explorer 7? I saw it was available but haven't tried it yet.

Hello,

I am running it for corporate applications. I use Opera and Firefox for everything else.

IE7 on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 doesn't offer the "sandbox" mode which Windows Vista runs IE7 in by default. However, it does supposedly offer better security than IE6. Then again, anything does.

It has incremental improvements in graphics (better PNG support) and security (anti-phishing technology).

However, unless you're like me and have to run corporate apps on Windows with IE due to functionality issues, it's better to just run Opera 9 or Firefox 2.0 instead. I run those two instead of IE for my non-work browsing.

THanks,

Mitch

yeah, I upgraded recently. The tabbed browsing is OK but was already available with other browsers. Like Mitch, I only use it at work -- for Outlook web services.

I've updated it on our laptop. Doesn't seem overly offensive, nor overly useful so far, but I don't use that computer much.

I have been using it since its official release - mainly because Microsoft included it in its "critical updates", so it downloaded automatically. The tabbing is OK, but I do not like the new interface (tool bars, and options). I cannot find a way of opening a html file on my hard disk without opening the Windows Explorer and double clicking it. This was very annoying because I had made Firefox my default browser, so I would end up with both browsers running. IE 7 also won't let me uninstall browser add-ons - the Delete button is always greyed out, but I can use the Disable button.

Another gripe is that IE 7 only gives you the option to open a link in a new tab if that link is a favorite. Links embedded in web pages only have the option of open in a new window - unlike Firefox which always gives you both options.

bluesdave wrote:

Another gripe is that IE 7 only gives you the option to open a link in a new tab if that link is a favorite. Links embedded in web pages only have the option of open in a new window - unlike Firefox which always gives you both options.

This works for me, either right-click and open in tab or ctrl-click.

Undertoad wrote:

This works for me, either right-click and open in tab or ctrl-click.

I do not get the option to open in a tab when I right click (unfortunately, I cannot capture the screen to post it here), but I did try the ctrl-click which works - I did not know about that option, thanks UT.

BTW, UT can you tell me what happened to the secure page symbol that used to appear at the bottom of a secure web page (the padlock)? IE 7 does not display it, and I can't find an option to turn it on. The only way I have to verify whether a page is secure (ie. is using SSL), is to right click and select Properties.

It is slow and it sux. Gimme Firefox any day!

I upgraded to it v7.0 the other day, and now the stoopid thing refuses to actually open. I try to run the program and it just hangs part way through.

Fine with me though. Wife was the only one using it. I use Firefox and she's using NetScrape now.

Somebody at work must have hit "okay" when they were asked if they wanted to upgrade. Exploiter7 seems fairly stable and relatively inoffensive.

Isn't that what people say about serial killers on the news after the police find 20-1/3 bodies under the garage?

edit to add: I take the relatively inoffensive part back. I just remembered that it handles security certificates differently, and will actually refuse to allow you to go to a page where one isn't properly updated. I wouldn't really care, except that I don't have privilege to change the security levels and it won't let me get to an insurance company's website that we actually need to use to verify benefits.

My company is trying to prevent people from downloading IE7 so soon -- a lot of those CSS rendering bugs in IE6 that the developers wrote around for years that became CSS "standards" have been corrected in IE7. I installed it and, suddenly, internal corporate websites don't load correctly, anymore.

The old "you can't use Firefox/Mozilla to browse our site because it doesn't load it correctly" has suddenly switched to a rule that only permits IE6. Hilarious.

Kitsune wrote:

Hilarious.

[SIZE="4"][FONT="Book Antiqua"]And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually... [/FONT][/SIZE]

Did MS not see this coming, or just not care? IE's cascading "bugs" re-released as a retrograde "service-pack" [SIZE="4"]???[/SIZE]