Yes, the long awaited Internet Explorer 7 has arrived, with such high attention has the browser finally fixed it's ways? Well I wrote a small review, I do think the change is for the best, despite some issues have not been addressed. More importantly what are your views with the update ?

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and Windows Vista option in "select your system" ?
i dont think vista has the IE7
i think xp should work
* DarkMe still prefer Firefox

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Originally posted by DarkMe
and Windows Vista option in "select your system" ?
i dont think vista has the IE7
i think xp should work
* DarkMe still prefer Firefox

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Honestly, still eats up a lot of my memory.  The GUI isnt the best lookin' either.

i hate it... i cant even navigate around it, its sooooooooo dodgy.

my dad is gonna be liike WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!11 get in here and tell me what you did!!!!!!!!

i had rc1 but i dont like IE7 that much. its the same as 6 just with some new features. i use my firefox

sux.

btw, does it support png alpha transparency yet?

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
sux.

btw, does it support png alpha transparency yet?

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finally, but still most people will use ie 6 for the next 2 years so it hardly helps =(

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Originally posted by Supersonicdarky
finally, but still most people will use ie 6 for the next 2 years so it hardly helps =(

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Originally posted by foaly
well it will auto-install trough windows-update somewhere november...
so people just might start using it...

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IE7 out now... so firefox2 will be out soon?

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Originally posted by ins4ne
IE7 out now... so firefox2 will be out soon?

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Originally posted by vaccination
Firefox is in RC 3 of beta 2.

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Originally posted by vaccination
i have used the beta of IE7

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
there just trying to copy other browzers with the tabbed browzing IMO

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So, is it true that we can now delete index.dat while not running on safe mode?

I downloaded it and tried it out for the first time the other day. My first thoughts was that it is ok. I couldn't bring up the File menu for starters. I can't make it move above the address bar.

Where is the 'new tab' button? I can't seem to customise the toolbars. On the outside, it is a bit disappointing for me. On the inside, I don't know all about that stuff. I know the loading of web pages has been sped up. Other things have been fixed etc (PNG and .gif bug). I use Maxthon so as long as the insides are better, I'm happy.

heh its nothing special just a new gui , some better css rendering and its now sandboxed.

so =p continue using Firefox / Opera

I still like firefox. Better looks, dev base, customisation, feels more comfortable to me etc.
This was from the IE beta's. IE 7 final is being downloaded via windows update so once its done, lets see how it is
Dont think its going have changed enough for me to go back to IE. Hell I personally dont think ill be leaving FF

Firefox is slowly taking over the browsing world, and the speed and growing strength of Firefox is going to be hard to stop. Firefox ftw
But this version of Internet Explorer is pretty good in comparison, although i do find it a bit slow loading tabs etc.

Dunno, need a crack to install it, lol . Dodgy validation checks.


Judging by what I've seen and heard they made some nice improvements. But not enough to make me stop using FF.

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Originally posted by Dazmatic
there just trying to copy other browzers with the tabbed browzing IMO

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
well it has already updated mine

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
well it has already updated mine

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Not through windows update, it isn't even released there yet .

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I hate it. its worse than IE6. and its so hard to navigate around

I use IE 6 because the dutch version of IE 7 comes out between november en februari. And i must say that firefox is a good browser but my computer deleted everything related to it when i used hitman pro and spy sweeper. All FF had been removed so i think it is still using spywere. And the opera browser sucks, I cannot start my comp using that browser, so, i think that i stick with IE 7, that way i know for sure that i have a browser that is safe. And for me IE is good enough. Everyone chooses there own browser.

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Originally posted by JimboDude
I hate it. its worse than IE6. and its so hard to navigate around

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Originally posted by black widow
And i must say that firefox is a good browser but my computer deleted everything related to it when i used hitman pro and spy sweeper. All FF had been removed so i think it is still using spywere.

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Originally posted by hosey
agree with you mate.... it is so hard to navigate around took ages 4 me (and probly many others) to find hte refresh button, when i first got it i didnt have clue were the hell it was...

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My point is, we can navigate easy. But how about people who struggle with computers? Internet Explorer is used by people with a huge range of different abilities, it is far from user-friendly as it should be.

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Originally posted by absorbation
My point is, we can navigate easy. But how about people who struggle with computers? Internet Explorer is used by people with a huge range of different abilities, it is far from user-friendly as it should be.

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Too much glamour, not enough simple down to earth stuff. Simple things make a huge difference. The Vista style font's really mess things up as well.

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Originally posted by absorbation
Too much glamour, not enough simple down to earth stuff. Simple things make a huge difference. The Vista style font's really mess things up as well.

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I still like IE6 better, IE6 seems more better for me. I can't really explain it but IE7 seems too colourful but there's probably a way to change it.

well it took me some time to get use to it and i didn't really find much new features, to me it just looks different with tabs i use it though, but its something that will never replace my FF.

thats ok for me.

I haven't got the newest Internet Explorer 7 yet, Beta 3 I think.

It's a lot better than version 4, 5, 6.

Tabs are cool. I've noticed that they are a bit slow when creating a new one (I'm only using beta though), but a lot quicker than Firefox still. Even though they should be blank, they show "Connecting" when they are opened (even with a new window), dunno if it's fixed for final.

There is more room taken by the page, rather than the horrendous amount of toolbar buttons linke IE6. Without my custom Opera UI, Internet Explorer gives more space to the page than Opera does!

I have having to use IE6 at school, hopefully they get version seven soon.

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Originally posted by absorbation
The Vista style font's really mess things up as well.

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13

Edit: My bad, you can turn ClearType off

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by black widow
And i must say that firefox is a good browser but my computer deleted everything related to it when i used hitman pro and spy sweeper. All FF had been removed so i think it is still using spywere.

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Haha . Firefox is an opensource browser, so if they would add dirty little things in FF the opensource community will certainly let the world know. There is no way there is spyware in FF.

What might have happened is that you catched some spyware from somewhere else that plugins to FF (like a browser toolbar), and because of that a badly written anti-spyware program deleted FF itself. Or you have downloaded FF from an untrusted location that bundled it with spyware.

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I think it has improved, even though Opera and FF are the only browsers I'm ever gonna use. (Except when I'm on MS)

The GUI isn't so much to say "hurray" for, as I honestly just don't like it. But, there has been some CSS fixes and it supports png alpha transparency.

So, IE7 is better than IE6, but it's not a good browser anyways.

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Originally posted by black widow
Say what you want, but i stick with IE. It works fine for me. It is trustworthy, it is safe and good enough as a browser.

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As i said before, everyone chooses there own browser.

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Originally posted by black widow
Say what you want, but i stick with IE.

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I think its terrible I can't place the menu bar at the top or the other bar with the icons in and its supposed to be customizeable???? firefox lets me do all that and more, also it forces the ie7 icon as your .html files icon and its impossible to change it so i am really pissed off at it, It's fucking shit at working with offline sites containing any code and even worse when there is flash also.

It's just nasty Firefox 2 FTW <

Nile: My *.html files stay with the firefox icon, maybe IE7 is set to your default browser?

First Impressions

I download it. Seems to be taking a while to download just for an installer. So after a few mins I start installing it. I go off for 15 minutes and come back and it's still installing. It says 'finalising installation' and then it finishes. Now it wants to restart the computer and I do so.

So after the restart, I open up Internet Explorer. Takes about a minute just to open after clicking it. So it finally opens. "Wow, that's weird" I'm thinking. Looks weird maximised on a big resolution. But you can see more of the page without the toolbars, which is a good thing I guess. So there's less buttons, more cleaner. Why the 'Windows Messenger' button though? Who uses that? The text looks different on IE7, ClearType Tuning is used I guess. Not sure about that.

* Chris4 uninstalls and goes back to Firefox

The address bar is stuck at the top so that the user can always be sure where to find it, especially for less experienced people, search toolbars can't put themselves where the address bar goes and trick the user into using it instead of the real address bar.

The icon stealing isn't by design, if the icons cannot be changed, there is a problem with it.

Windows Messanger button? Aww man ... that isn't in the beta, I'm going to hack the final if it has it at my place.

IE7 is a huge improvement from IE6 in many aspects (security, performance, features etc). Even if you are using Firefox i'd recommend upgrading IE6 to IE7 anyways for security reasons.