In the last 15 minutes I have installed, tried, and uninstalled Internet Explorer 7 on my laptop. I honestly couldn't see a good reason to keep it...
Enhanced security is all well and good but my firewall, virus scanner and Win Patrol have kept me 100% virus/malware free for years so not reason enough to continue using IE7.
Tabbed browsing: Opera does it so much better; personally I prefer the multiple windows approach anyway, if only because I've been using it for 8 years.
"ClearType": this is the biggest bag of utter and total rubbish I've ever seen. I don't find it any "clearer"; all I see are bigger, clumsier characters and reading the ClearType-ed text makes my eyes struggle to focus.
New layout: why, oh why, must the address bar be fixed at the very top of the window? The "File/Edit/View/etc" buttons have always been at the top before, and what was wrong with that?
There are probably other things too, but the above were enough to convince me that IE7 has no place on any of my computers. At least my other machines run non-legit Windows so IE7 won't install anyway
What other problems have people found with IE7, or are most happy with it and I'm just a Luddite?!
Enhanced security is all well and good but my firewall, virus scanner and Win Patrol have kept me 100% virus/malware free for years so not reason enough to continue using IE7.
Tabbed browsing: Opera does it so much better; personally I prefer the multiple windows approach anyway, if only because I've been using it for 8 years.
"ClearType": this is the biggest bag of utter and total rubbish I've ever seen. I don't find it any "clearer"; all I see are bigger, clumsier characters and reading the ClearType-ed text makes my eyes struggle to focus.
New layout: why, oh why, must the address bar be fixed at the very top of the window? The "File/Edit/View/etc" buttons have always been at the top before, and what was wrong with that?
There are probably other things too, but the above were enough to convince me that IE7 has no place on any of my computers. At least my other machines run non-legit Windows so IE7 won't install anyway
What other problems have people found with IE7, or are most happy with it and I'm just a Luddite?!