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    • Yes, I only use other browsers for the tabs
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    • Yes, I just want the enhanced security
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    • I already use IE
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    • No, I need my mouse gestures and other features
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    • No, M$ is 73h $uck
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    • No, i use linux/OSX and MS doesnt like me
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    • No, i use win 9x/2k and MS doesnt care about me
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Some things about Internet Explorer that people want but it already has:

--Standards Support

--> It supports HTML 4.0 perfectly in strict mode in IE6. The web developers have to tell it to use strict for it to work in strict, and many places where IE6 is "broken" is only because it is being forced to render in quirks mode. However, they do need to upgrade its support of the standards.

--User Defined Stylesheets

--> Been a feature since IE 4.0. It just isn't advertised to well ;).

Internet Options, General tab, Accessibility button. See the User defined stylesheet area? Yep, been there forever.

Not enough choices for the poll IMO.

I'd switch ONLY if IE7 had tabs, adblock, mouse gestures and had fixes to issues like png transparency support, CSS rendering, DOM and DHTML issues; OR if MS bought Firefox/Opera/KMeleon and called it IE7 :)

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ZeroHertz speaks the truth. :)

Actually, when IE7 comes out, I'd probably use it for a while and then run Ad-Aware to see if there's any junk. Using Firefox has really made Ad-Aware have nothing to catch, so this will be a test for IE7.

But really, they need to not allow script/coding errors to continue and stuff like that. I don't have a problem with IE7 being more strict with coding at all.

No.

Because as soon as IE becomes as popular as it once was, then Microsoft will just stop development again.

I like Mozilla. They care about standards support, they care about user feedback, they care about non-microsoft platforms, and they have a much faster development pace then IE does.

The poll doesn't offer the right options - for me I would switch back if it was a better product, but not just because it is "IE". I use Firefox because it suits my browsing habits, but I would happily switch to another browser if it was more practical.

Not enough choices for the poll IMO.

I'd switch ONLY if IE7 had tabs, adblock, mouse gestures and had fixes to issues like png transparency support, CSS rendering, DOM and DHTML issues; OR if MS bought Firefox/Opera/KMeleon and called it IE7 :)

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Well we can all dream of Microsoft creating the perfect browser but, now it's time to come back to reality...? :D

first i wonder why anyone cares about who uses what browser

second i use many browsers and i generally like most of them....

Netscape8 is a good browser. i've just downloaded it and I'll give it a positive review.. It's more resource intensive than firefox but it has a clean design and is overall appealing and without adware or those annoying download AOL links everywhere.

ZeroHertz, more options? :blink: personally I think theres too many options in this poll, it needs to be simple, and to the point

IE 7?

x I'll try IE 7, it'll become my main browser.

x Probably try IE 7, but will still prefer using alternative browser

x Continue to use Existing/Alternative Browser

but thats just me :)

IE 8.0 is out? the way this thread was started, I was beginning to think i missed something.......h*ll no! Why go backwards? Mozilla FireFox 4 me, all the way, baby!!!

(smart *sses insert opinion here) :rolleyes:

I will only switch if IE7 is exceptionally good, at the moment I consider FF exceptionally good, so IE has pretty big shoes to fit in.

I'd convert if it was standards compliant, more secure then FF, and overall more customisable and better.

Slim chance of that happening tbh.

while I don't remember where I read it but I did read that CSS2 support was only going to be partial at best. .so imo I'm not even gonna bother with it. .for casual 'net surfers web standards really don't matter much ..only for developers .. but as long as MS doesn't get on that bandwagon people are still gonna have problems with sites displaying properly. We shouldn't have to wait for Longhorn for IE to be separated from the core of the OS like it's been since 98SE...yeah you can remove IE but you can't even use add/remove programs ...for those that don't know when you open add/remove programs it's all html...You can get hit with worms and viruses even using a different browser only because IE is installed everytime you install Windows 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 and now XP ... MS shouldn't have waited this long to separate IE from the OS .. but they have and it's been a wait that's been going on too long

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