Should I install IE7 and Microsoft tells me I definitely want to? Thoughts? Thanks.
I did. After you start, it assures you that you can delete it and go back to what you are currently running if you want to. I haven’t encountered any trouble, all my bookmarks and settings transferred right on over. I’m not one of the people that are violently passionate about their internet browser, IE 7 seems to work just as good as whatever I had before.
It took me a while to get used to (i’ve put the toolbars back to pretty much what they were before) but I like the tabs. There doesn’t seem to be anything horrible about it yet, though I do keep getting warnings before I can use the link tab on the board.
Installing IE7 trashed my hard drive - corrupting the master file table and creating a spurious pagefile entry in the registry - essentially disabling virtual memory. Fortunately it was fixable and I had good backups of all my data anyway.
I was told that it couldn’t possibly have been the IE7 install that caused the problem - that it must have been coincidence and I should try again after thoroughly checking the disk and scanning for viruses and malware etc - which I did, and it trashed the hard drive and system settings again in exactly the same way (this time, the error was reported in a system tray balloon that popped up midway through the actual install.
I’m sure my experience is a rare one and I’m sure it’s down to some weird combination of hardware and configuration that just happened to throw the installer a curveball, but for me at least, yes, there’s a reason not to install it.
The other reason not to install it is that it looks bloody atrocious and seems to perform poorly even on fairly high-spec machines - page rendering is slow, for example.
Why not? WHY NOT!? Because it’s electronic evil monkeys disguised as a web browser.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
Firefox guy myself.
I use Firefox for the most part but I did upgrade my rarely used IE to version 7. Now when I run QuickBooks’04, I get a message telling me that it won’t work with IE7 so I have to go back to the old IE or pay to upgrade to the latest version of QB. So far I have been ignoring the message and QB works just fine. I’m not sure why QB even cares what browser I am using but it could be an issue for some people.
I’ve got it, and for some reason it seems a little slower that IE 6. For instance when I start it up I have to wait a while, well maybe 10 seconds before it “comes to life”, if you will. I used to run firefox, but really couldn’t say I preferred it over IE, so I deleted it, but I’m planning on reinstalling it because, according to things I’ve read on The Dope, it comes with a spellchecker plugin,and my spellin sux.
The update I wish I’d avoided is the windows media player 11, which was really slow until I opened up control panel and deleted that urge whatever it was.
I like the tabs, although they take a bit of getting used to. You can add the Google toolbar to add spellchecking ability. (They have a new version of the toolbar for IE7, the old toolbar won’t work.)
I’d wait… I’ve heard from several people who have had problems after installing IE7.
I’ve got it. I don’t think it’s quite as good as Firefox, but it’s an improvement over IE6. I’ve had it installed on a couple of computers and it went very easily.
If you need a spellchecker, Stout, just install the Google toolbar (which you probably will want to do anyway).
Using it right now, no problems to report
Thanks RealityChuck, I’ll go get myself a google toolbar then, rather than firefox. Try as I may, I haven’t been able to make myself dissatisfied with IE, and most of the arguement’s I’ve heard against IE, seem to be more anti Microsoft than anything else.
Were I more computer literate, I might hold a different opinion, but at this stage of the game…“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”
While it sounds like you’re happy with IE, I’ll just point out that it’s not an either/or situation. Firefox is a standalone program and won’t affect your ability to use IE.
If you possess “pirated” or perhaps improperly installed software, you might find their programs disabled. My Norton Antivirus 2005, which I had renewed for a second year became disabled. Norton was no help in resolving this.
Thanks Giraffe, I was thinking either/or just because I can’t see the point of having two browser programs in my computer. Mind you this comes from a guy with an 80 gig hard drive that has 70 gig of free space left on the thing. I have some weird type of OCD or something that compulses me to get rid of things I don’t immediatly need on my computer.
Yes, I freak when I end up on somebody elses computer and find it cluttered with what I consider junk. I am learning to deal with it, and one day, I too might end up with a useless icon on my desktop, and not consider it the evil that I currently do.
Apparentlly IE7 is not compatable with Win2K. Not that it matters, I use Opera anyway.
BTW which is “Better”, Firefox or Opera? (I’m thinking of switching from Opera to Firefox)
One of the weaknesses of the way the tabbed browsing has been implemented is that there should be a page forward and back button within each individual tab.
Instead, you have to switch to the correct tab and then use the forward/back buttons, and if you are browsing several sites at once and they take their time refreshing, it slows the whole process down somewhat, which kind of takes away the biggest benefit of tabbed browsing.
Yes, but with some modifications.
The “phishing filter” slows down computers horribly. You need to NOT install that little bastich. The pop-up blocker is also more invasive, in my opinion.
Secondly, if you have an HP printer/scanner which uses the HP director - the IE7 interface can horribly corrupt the program. I had to do a complete reformat on a laptop because IE7 and HP don’t work together.
Lastly, if you are using it for any essential purposes, i.e. business that you can’t have interrupted, make sure to check the manufacturer’s site of any software that you use to see if there’s been any issues with their product. At our work, we can’t go to IE7 because it won’t work with our company-wide financial software.
Their moving about of the Menu bar and the Address bar is damn annoying, but there’s a good non-microsoft patch out there that tells you how to fix that.
Actually, I am starting to lose patience with Firefox. The memory leak has not been fixed and in fact it seem to be getting worse.
I’m one of those people who needs a reason to abandon whatever it is I’m currently using before I go to something else.
Just like with banks - no bank is going to lure me into leaving my credit union. It’s up to my credit union to lose me as a customer. So, as soon as IE6 becomes inadequate for what I need a browser for, I’ll look for a solution.
That’s why I was using Win95 up until XP came out 