internet explorer 7?

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this might have already been a topic:rolleyes: ...but has anyone already got on explorer 7?, i know its been out ages but i thought i would wait to see if there had been any problems with it:rolleyes:
would anyone recommend putting it on or staying with explorer 6?
what extra does it have?
dont ask me to look at microsoft web page, cuz its all gobbledygook to me:o
 
I use it at work and find it better that IE6.

tabbed browsing is a good addition, like the BT own version.

I also believe if you dont like it you can always go back to IE6
 
I use ie7 too no problems at all installing it and runs fine its more secure than ie6 and as MR D says has tabbed browsing which is handy
 
I didn't like it at first because all the text on websites was really tiny, now I'm used to it I quite like it even though I do have to squint at the screen to read the text lol!
 
get rid of it before you start to find that sites dont work properly and you cant view a lot of stuff
 
Cheers entwisi I'll give that a try. It's actually the whole look of the websites. Another forum I go on, the message board filled the screen perfectly and the text was large enough to read comfortably but since changing to IE 7 the board has a big black border round it. It looks like it's actually part of the website but it wasn't there before. It's a bit hard to explain ...
 
That unfortunately is down to what is called the 'style sheet'

Crap programmers have long been getting away with poor websites, IE used to deal with their code the best(as in it seemed to display what they wanted, not what they coded), now it is starting to apply the rules far more tightly and their crap sites will show up any errors
 
Or you could just start using a decent browser

www.opera.com

:D

Seriously, give it a go, it won't screw up your PC or take over any links unless you tell it to. It adds lots of really nice features and if you are fortunate enough to have a brain wired like mine it just 'works' as in it does exactly what I want, when I want it

e.g. a url on a webpage, shade it right click and there is a goto URL option. no cut n paste. Or shade and right click some text, right click and there is a search with tool wher you can select from a number of useful search engines/sites

tabbed browsing, phishing flters, thumbnail views of all tabs, one touch keyboadr shortcuts
 
entwisi said:
e.g. a url on a webpage, shade it right click and there is a goto URL option. no cut n paste. Or shade and right click some text, right click and there is a search with tool wher you can select from a number of useful search engines/sites

tabbed browsing, phishing flters, thumbnail views of all tabs
Click to expand...

I'm sure IE 7 does all those things :confused:
 
you sure?? :D


context sensitive menus? not in Operas league dear.....

please, try it and see, it will only cost you the time you give it and you never know..... it may just well be the dark side calling..........................................
 
I have IE7 & had no problems whatsoever glad they caught up at long last:D

Yes i've used Opera it is whippy & good but not all websites can be viewed in opera when i had it like my online banking:rolleyes:
 
entwisi said:
a url on a webpage, shade it right click and there is a goto URL option. no cut n paste.
Click to expand...

Shade right click open and it opens the URL webpage in another window .... is that what you meant?

entwisi said:
Or shade and right click some text, right click and there is a search with tool wher you can select from a number of useful search engines/sites
Click to expand...

Shaded right click it gave me the option to search opera in Google because it's my default search engine ... is that also what you meant?

entwisi said:
tabbed browsing
Click to expand...

Yes

entwisi said:
phishing flters
Click to expand...

Yes

entwisi said:
thumbnail views of all tabs
Click to expand...

Yes

entwisi said:
one touch keyboadr shortcuts
Click to expand...

Don't know about this one

Not sure what context sensitive menus are? Have you had a play with IE 7? If you have you'll know what it has
 
Last version I used was a late beta so some features may have made it in that weren't there when I last tried it. I'm genuinely happy that those of you who do use IE have a browser that is far more secure than the old IE6. I'm also happy that web developers will now have to be far better at their jobs as this will help those of us who do use other browsers that are W3C complient.

One point about sites that 'don't work' in other browsers. Quite often these sites will actually work perfectly if you get them to report that they are IE. There is a thing called a user agent where a website can ask what browser/OS/etc you are using and then do stuff dependant on that. By 'faking' you are a IE user on XP will make these dodgy sites work in 90% of cases. Its just lazy developers again who can't be bothered to test in other cominations so they say it won't work as a cop out
 
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