IE7 Love it or Hate it?

[JohnBoucher]

Well,
Who has installed the latest and greatest browser from Microsoft? It runs well, fast, but what dog of a GUI.

I think they tried too much at once. It works, but has a learning curve that a lot of people won't appreciate.

[Stephen Kowski]

love the RSS feed handling, but it has crashed on me everytime I've used it so I think ill wait a little longer for Firefox 2.0 to be fully released.

[chris31]

I use firefox. Im installing IE7 now, just to check it out.

[GRaduns340]

I like IE7, and my real reason for not using it is because I've gotten used to clicking Firefox when I do anything on the Internet. I think IE's great though. The other downside is that it doesn't have open extensions. As a web design guy I use a few of the Firefox plugins, like FireBug (page errors) and DOM Inspector (quick access to linked CSS from each HTML tag is nice). I doubt there will ever be much of a push for that in IE.

Short version:
I like it a lot, and would probably use it if I wasn't too deep into Firefox already.

[artdutra04]

I've had IE7 since it's first Beta release came out. It's much better than previous versions of Internet Explorer, expecially from a web developer point of view. If you must insist on using Internet Explorer, at lease use IE7.

The one thing I absolutely cannot stand about IE7 is the user interface. They took a nice bunch of icons and menus, that were all concentrated in one, nice area and just exploded them everywhere and anywhere on the page, with no rhyme or reason behind their placement. It takes a long time to get used to this new setup. I still cannot find the "Find" feature. How ironic.

But I will still say - memory leak or not - that Firefox 2.0 is still better than IE7. Firefox 2.0 will have all the same new features as IE7, such as RSS feed subscription, anti-phishing protection, and more. The thing that really set Firefox 2.0 ahead of IE7 IMHO is the new spell check feature that will be built into FF 2.0. Finally, there is hope for the end of posts dat look lik thay r spelld like dis.

[KenWittlief]

I used Firefox for over a year as my preferred browser, but then it started crashing about once an hour on me, and even after a delete and re-install I could not get it to work reliably.

Some websites require IE ( for example, filling out your FASFA forms for college), so you cant get away from it completely.

Im very reluctant to intall IE7. When computer SW crashes it drives me bezerk, because I know there is no excuse for poorly written buggy SW.

[dk5sm5luigi]

I definately think it is better than IE6. It seems to render everything better. I still won't switch from FireFox but at least it makes my life easier (once everyone starts using it).
-Nick

[thegathering]

I use FireFox and don't care to install IE7 to see Microsoft's version of features already on other (safer) browsers.

Check out the new firefox beta tryouts though I'm using RC3 and love the look.

[EHaskins]

The one thing I absolutely cannot stand about IE7 is the user interface. They took a nice bunch of icons and menus, that were all concentrated in one, nice area and just exploded them everywhere and anywhere on the page, with no rhyme or reason behind their placement. It takes a long time to get used to this new setup. I still cannot find the "Find" feature. How ironic.

That's exactly what I'm thinking. The GUI so terrible. I think this was their attempt to make an easier to use interface, but you can't find anything.

I'm running Firefox 2.0 rc3, and it is so much better than IE. The first beta I ran did crash, but after the second it seems stable. The built in spell checker, anti phisher, RSS reader, and restore session functions make it much better than Firefox1.5 or IE7.

Just my $0.02.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I use FF2.0 on windoze, and Safari on mac.

IE7 - Hate it
FF2.0 - LOVE IT!
Safari for OS X 10.5 - Going to blow both away.

[Dan Petrovic]

Unless it has tabs like Firefox, I'm not interested.

And I love how many CD users use Firefox.

[EHaskins]

Originally Posted by InfernoX14

Unless it has tabs like Firefox, I'm not interested.

And I love how many CD users use Firefox.

Like I said above I'm a Firefox guy, but IE7 does have tabs.

[Kristian Calhoun]

I just installed it, and although it is better than IE6, I strongly dislike it.

As Art said, the interface is very...scattered.

I use (and will continue to use) Firefox. The height of the tabs is also shorter than those in IE7 (allowing for a greater viewing area). One of the features in FF that I love that isn't in IE7 or Opera is the Bookmarks tool bar. In addition, FF and Opera both have their themes/extensions/widgets, which IE is still lacking.

So unless both Firefox and Opera simultaneously crash, I won't be using Internet Explorer for a while (which also always denies access to the Z:\ drive on school computers, while FF and Opera do not. Go figure.)

I may be biased slightly... but I'm a little wary of any Microsoft product, after my horrid experiences with Win-doh-s...

As for IE7... ick.
I'm sticking with FF1.5 until I hear that the memory leak is fixed on 2.0. Only reason I care about that is Inventor takes all the RAM I've got.

[chris31]

Firefox RC3 is look nice! So I just installed IE7 on my XP box and i can not stand the IE7 GUI. I dont like it at all.