danksy Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 God I hate it The normal icons have gone, and I don't feel in control of the browser anymore What does everyone else think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamD Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I am not keen, I have had major stability problems with it on my work laptop. FF2 seems a little better, but to be honest that is not exactly stable either and it munches memory It is fairly usual that one of the browsers is "broken" but at the moment it seems to be both Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shao_khan Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I hate it so far - its like all the ability to personalise the browser has gone in favour of having it personalised how MS want it. WHo wants a forward / back in the top left corner ffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashleyadam Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I cant see what the improvement is totally hate it - the address bar at the top of the screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I've been running the Beta for about 6-9 months. The one glitch it had (or my other software) is that I use a finger print reader to submit usernames passwords and it only works on the first tab. Apart from that it's fine. The tabs and zoom functions are very useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I had enough problems with IE5.5 and 6.x on work machines that they now all run Firefox. I'll not even look at IE 7 if it is in my power. As for home, all my laptops/computers are now running flavours of UNIX - I'm glad I made the jump... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 It's defaulted to clean mode. Just revert it back to cluttered mode in Options. It's much better than IE6. I prefer 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I tried it for a few months. turned OFF clear type, and tabs. recently returned to IE6 and havent missed IE7 one bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Internet Explorer 7 = fecking shite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mb Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I tried this, like the tabs as I use these all the time, & was persevering with it - found it slow to load the tab, but prefered the way of closing the tabs, the overview & that you could give each tab its own homepage but it struggled to download things so used Firefox again which made itself the default (worse than MS !) but haven't seen fit to change it back so IE7 didn't last here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colly Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Madness . IE 7 is quite good, the layout is a big improvment and clear type makes the net a better place to browse. RE: address bar at the top - works perfect from a designers point of view, now the browser is what it should be - a 'viewing space' concentrating only on the content and the content not been over shadowed by tool bars etc. No matter what people say IE eats FF in terms of speed, I honestly can't believe how poor FF is at loading thumbnails and video pages - just useless. Revert back to IE 5 \ 6? what a waste of time and a waste of new standards. [/rant over] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 I can't find anything in IE7.. where's my print settings?, mt favorites?, quick links, home page? Can't be doing with typing in addresses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colly Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Right click on the space at the side of your tabs, make sure menu bar is ticked if you want the original drop downs back. Also home page \ print settings etc are on the tabs bar at the right hand side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colly Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 Also when you tick menu bar if you tick links aswell the quick links will appear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 [ QUOTE ] clear type makes the net a better place to browse. [/ QUOTE ] I disagree. link, to my post on CSN, with IE6 and IE7 running cleartype. IE7 was nothing more than average. I havent missed a thing going back. The main feature, aka tabbed browsing, I hated and turned off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCab Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 IE7 seems much faster to start and load; stable; generally better all round. Why is this the opposite of everyone else ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bazza_g Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 bazza reports browsing happiness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted November 23, 2006 Report Share Posted November 23, 2006 [ QUOTE ] IE7 seems much faster to start and load; stable; generally better all round. Why is this the opposite of everyone else ? [/ QUOTE ] It's not. We've got it on tons of machines now and we're happier with it than IE6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colly Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Thats the point though - going back. Why? Turn off clear type, turn off tabbed browsing and still use the latest browser Cleartype smoothes the edging of fonts to make them appear sharper, maybe your monitor is playing it down?, I say this as I have viewed cleartype on a cheap monitor and it did look awful and too bold, looking from a newish decent monitor and it's perfect. I guess I'm ranting because I run a web \ software development business and I'm sick off people been behind with the latest standards. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparky Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I'm the same Colly. We still have some IE 4 users who won't upgrade. IE7 is better. Having seen how it was built, it isn't worse than IE6. Despite security flaws that will come out, it's far more secure than IE6, it is faster, it is cleaner and it's what the majority of the 1,500,000 beta testers asked for. Some people (not saying anyone here is) are basing their views on Beta 1 of IE7, when the RTM/RC version is quite different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 The point od going back was to see if there was anything i would miss from IE7. There wasnt. Also IE7 fecks up FTP site access, and you have to revert to using third party software to access them. I find IE6 far more fluid, it allows me to access view and drag and drop files on my ftp site without using clients like smartftp or cutftp etc [ QUOTE ] I have viewed cleartype on a cheap monitor and it did look awful and too bold, looking from a newish decent monitor and it's perfect. [/ QUOTE ] I have 2 TFT screens. a 18.1" LG screen that ive just replaced and my Brand new Dell UltraSharp™ 2007WFP 20.1" Widescreen LCD cant get much newer than that. Clear type is crap. Its like viewing the screen through someone elses glasses.It really makes browsing uncomfortable. It was firmly turned off along with tabbed browsing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Some people (not saying anyone here is) are basing their views on Beta 1 of IE7, when the RTM/RC version is quite different. [/ QUOTE ] I'll give you that, I was refering to beta 2 . They could have made the layout a bit more flexible as well while they were at it, its very much Microsoft's way or no way. There were things i would have liked to move around in the toolbars at the top, that they have decided to fix. for me, it just did not add anything to my browsing experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaunty Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Printing is better in IE7, I wish I could skin it back to IE6 though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 My FTP access seems fine with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Posted November 28, 2006 Report Share Posted November 28, 2006 Been running IE7 for a few weeks now. Don't notice any real advantage over IE6 at all, but a few really annying features. When I click any of the Instant UBB code when making a post to give me italics or Bold or whatever, it won't allow it and flashes up a header telling me that the web site is trying to use scripted windows and should it allow it? So you have to accept that then click the UBB Code jobby again. Every. Bloody. Time. Fortunately they give you the option to add "trusted websites". So I have added TSN, and it's made not a jot of difference. Similarly, every time I go into Hotmail it asks me on the opening window whether I want to run "unsecure somethingotherelse". So I have to click yes or no. No check box for "don't ask me this again" so I have to do this every single blimmin time! The buttons are much smaller or hidden. Why? And what's all this "tabbed browsing" about? I think it's all trying to be a bit too clever. And failing. How do I get rid of it and go back to 6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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