For the love of god don't install IE 7

[Ryanwb]

I downloaded the beta and things just went down hill from there. My corporate Instant Messanger would crash every time I got a new message. My computer would randomly freeze and for some reason, winzip stopped working.

To make matters worse, they don't provide an un-install... I had to manually dig through the $uninstall files in my Windows directory. Luckily there was a removal tool in there and it restored back to my previous IE version..

Stick to Firefox

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Thanks for the warning.

I am actually switching back to IE now, though - I was tired of Firefox crashing all the time.

(I can't import my favorites, though...stupid Firefox.)

 

[SweetD]

beta= disaster. I have been testing Vista and Office 12 on a separate machine. I am having a hell of a time finding hardware drives for the beta version. EERRRR!

 

[Yuma]

Heck, my IT departmant won't switch to a new Microsoft OS until at Least a service pack or so down the road. That's being a Microsoft heavy bunch, too. So Betas are just for systems we are ready to get rid of anyway. Also, to take advantage of the new IE 7, you really need more memory and a honking new graphics card, plus a higher end processor.

 

[BillsCarnage]

Were you using B1 or B2? I believe they just released B2 which is supposed to be a significant upgrade over B1. I've installed B2 and so far haven't have any major probs, though i can tell it's a beta.

To add.. IE7 is a major ram hog. I have two tabs open in one window and it's sitting at 71mb of usage.. YEOWZA!

 

[Mike Olbinski]

Thanks for the warning.

I am actually switching back to IE now, though - I was tired of Firefox crashing all the time.

(I can't import my favorites, though...stupid Firefox.)

Mine never crashes...what was happening?

 

[Kel Varnsen]

Mine never crashes...what was happening?

It was weird. Firefox was really good for a while, but it changed. It was almost like if I tried to use the keyboard to go back to the previous page too quickly, it would crash. It did it every night for a while, so I just gave up and went back to IE.

I also didn't like that I could never find the option so that when I opened a new window, it would open the same page that I was viewing, not the start page that I had set.

Of course, now I can't find my bookmarks file to import my favorites from Firefox into IE, but at least my browser doesn't crash anymore.

 

[CardFan67]

A lot of pages just do not work properly with Firefox... I love it and use it more than IE, but there are places that I have to go with MSIE, Paypal and my EBay stuff for example... If you only ever used firefox you probably would not even know the difference but there are a ton of buttons for maintaining your account that won't show with Firefox or any of the Mozilla open source browsers...

 

[Ryanwb]

If you only ever used firefox you probably would not even know the difference but there are a ton of buttons for maintaining your account that won't show with Firefox or any of the Mozilla open source browsers...

Firefox doesn't natively support ActiveX, mostly because it's proprietary to Microsoft. You can download the plugin for this though and everything will work correctly.

I see a ton of really cool Firefox plug-ins on some of the linux sites I frequent

 

[MikeOnTheMic]

http://www.ie7.com/