Contemplating moving back to IE :P

[Ara]

wow, get Vista please and more RAM, IE7 is the best current internet browser, just takes a little while to get used to the lack of useless buttons.

[Ara]

agreed, IE7 takes twice as long for pages to load and FF never crashes, maybe if the ppl who have ff crashing should learn how to maintain their computer or stay off the porn

Bad product isn't the the user's fault.

[Da1andonly]

Fuck Vista.

[Ephemeral]

oh wow it has tabs, finally. Next.

Zer is simply asking for opinions, you gave your opinions and I gave mine. I see no need, nor value, in making smartass comments.

I am sure you have reasons that you feel the way you do, you made it clear in two previous posts in this thread. Why continue to beat the dead horse?

[Blueblaze]

If you're running XP, IE 6 runs better than 7 on XP. If you do get Vista, it'll run very well long as you have 2gb+ of ram. The lack of buttons is quite nice if you don't like a massive amount of clutter. Might as well try it for a few days and give it a shot, no harm in switching back if you don't like the product.

[Zerzera]

I believe I have stated how I dislike IE7 mainly because of how it looks and user-friendliness.

Yes, so the general idea is that IE7 sucks Until then I did not get any positive feedback on IE7.

But I don't think I will take the GUI in consideration much. The only things I really use on Firefox are the tabs, the error-screen the address bar and the links.

I don't see how Firefox really excels in those, except for the fact that Firefox allows me to have unnamed links, which is great because a favicon is sufficient.
Internet Explorer tells me I need to name my fast link. Which pisses me off.

I've been working with html, css, javascript enough to know how terrible IE6 and IE5 are. But I rather look unbiased at the current version of a product. Microsoft had good reasons not to develop their browser further until lately.

For me performance is most important. Lately I had some javascripts where Firefox's rendering is slow and buggy
It sometimes crashes when working with alot of video and audio, and I only have 3 add-ons.
I have no viruses, spyware, malware on my computer.

So again, I am asking for people with experience of using IE7 and latest Firefox versions. I don't mind feedback like "I installed IE7, looks like crap, not using it", but you can't really expect someone to take that into consideration.

[Zerzera]

Ewan

You agree totally with Ewan? Or you just like his name :P

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

I use IE7, and have rolled it out to the entire company. I find that the company people who are ABM (Anything But Microsoft) do not like it, people without agendas like it fine. It works, it's stable, it has tabs, performance is ok.

Finally, someone with a sane opinion. A browser is a browser, folks. I use both, but I prefer IE's interface.

[Edify]

my bookmarks disappear

WTF I thought this was just randomly only me! How did you fix it or recover them? I couldn't so I just recalled some from memory =(

[Galleleo]

I have no agenda against Microsoft or anything, and maybe it has to do with that I am not such a HUGE computer geek (as in know coding and all kinds of stuff about computers). But, as I said earlier, I have to use IE7 for some sites cause they don't work properly in firefox. And I really just don't like the whole interface and user thing. 2 big buttons for going back and forth, 2 for favourites and the rest you to go and find on your own.

Also, and this is just me probably, but when you open a new tab and it goes like: You've opened a new tab! as if I am some kind of child and I have made a huge accomplishment.. And I really just don't like the looks (I am really more geared towards the looks of things then how they work. Like cars for instance, I know nothing about engines nor really care for them, I am mainly just concerned with how it looks and how it drives).

[FarScape]

I used to work with IE for years. I'm using Firefox only for few months...

After you get used to Firefox, it is very difficult to return to IE. At first you don't feel the different, but after a while, FF speed, comfortability and stability are much better.

I have nothing against Microsoft. I don't see myself replacing my Win Xp with something else in the near future.

[Zerzera]

WTF I thought this was just randomly only me! How did you fix it or recover them? I couldn't so I just recalled some from memory =(

There's some way to fix it, but I gave up on bookmarks. I just remember google keywords to get back to sites I've been.

[Money]

Zer is simply asking for opinions, you gave your opinions and I gave mine. I see no need, nor value, in making smartass comments.

I am sure you have reasons that you feel the way you do, you made it clear in two previous posts in this thread. Why continue to beat the dead horse?

It's what I do.

[Epinephrine]

I too have been having trouble with crashes on FF lately. I don't even have any add-on plug ins except adobe acrobat and flash. I'm not sure about IE7 though, never really liked the interface, but it seems okay enough whenever I do use it.

[pascone]

i have no and never have had problems with ie7.