Thursday, October 19, 2006

IE 7 is now available for XP!  I've been using it now for a couple of months on both XP and Vista, and I think it's pretty solid.  This definitely brings IE back up to speed with modern browsers such as FireFox.  The only thing that bothers me is I can't set it up to automatically open a new tab when I type in an address.  I'm used to that behavior and I constantly clobber my tabs.  But, the streamlined interface, real tab support, and improved performance really make it good.  It really shines on Vista.

posted on Thursday, October 19, 2006 7:46:03 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)  #    Comments [2]
Thursday, October 19, 2006 10:42:48 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
sup millertime! I've been playing with the beta for some time now. I'll have to upgrade to the real thing soon. One thing I love about IE7 is the tabbed browsing. The Ctrl-T opens up a new tab, like it does in Firefox. The popup protection can be a little annoying sometimes.

It would be cool if we could get addins for it (like the Adblock plugin for firefox).... oh well... cool stuff!
Thursday, October 19, 2006 11:02:17 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Yeah, FireFox has a vibrant development community for extensions. The infrastructure is there for IE, there's just not as many people doing it.
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