Would You Switch Back to IE7?

[jadkins555]

Internet Explorer has a couple of inherent flaws that will pretty much never change. It is built too tightly into the operating system and it is slow at updating. Those are two things that will never change as long as it exists.

[Quillz]

i use linux and i use ie7 also. never left it.

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IE7 will work on Linux? I never knew that... Anyways, I'm already using IE7, simply because the browser engine works with just about every web page out there.

[nX07]

I dont think I would, the U.I. still needs to be more efficient (or me getting used of it, whichever way), plus, Windows update screwed up a couple times crashing I.E.

[NeoXY]

Too early to tell, but if MS keep doing what they're doing, it'll be looking good

[NX1]

I probably continue to use firefox and use IE only on occasion that i cant get the page load with firefox.

[Lee]

Sticking to my Firefox. :)

[Devil Fish]

I use IE now. I have Firefox installed, it's ok for tabs and that but I prefer IE. Just my preference.

[TomX]

IE7 has to be a revolution if I should switch to it.

But it isn't. And it may never be.

Using Opera right now w/o any probs and secure-holes.

Firefox is more comfortable in my opinion but is less secure than Opera.

So... we have to wait und look. And test and reinstall and test and cry and we'll usw an alternate browser... :pinch:

In german:

"Da bei?t sich die Katze in den Schwanz" :pp

[Mouldy Punk]

I think I probably would go back to IE 7, for a while atleast.

At the moment I'm using Firefox because it's security is so much better than IE6. Now, Firefox seems to be dying the same fate as IE6. Too many people are using it now, so hackers are spending more time looking for exploits - making it insecure. MS have a bigger team to fix security bugs than Mozilla do - MS tend to get security fixes out pretty damn quick. It's just a matter of time before Firefox is as much of a spyware magnet as IE6 is.

So if I'm going to use an insecure browser - I might aswell stick with the browser that is built into the OS and has security patches released very quickly. When I get bored of IE7, I have no doubt I'll migrate to Opera or another lesser-known browser. Then when that gets popular - move onto something else.

[matt74441]

Nah. I would use it long enough to set the homepage and thats it. All they've done is given it a facelift.

[GenieMORTY]

currently using IE7, i think im one of those who switch firefox back to IE :p

[Neil]

Still undecided still using Firefox now, the interface of IE 7 looks bad on xp, but looks great on Vista.

[epraes]

I never stopped using IE6, though I use Firefox from time to time, and it's great.

But once IE7 is released, the only thing that I was missing (tabs) will be included in it. I think I'll stick with IE.

[Mayhem]

"IF IE7 disabled activeX and became more secure and added tabbed browsing, would you switch back from firefox/opera?"

you can go to the Security options and disable activeX options

and a side note, many sites (not the propor ones :p) in IE6 that spawns activex all over the place in IE7 dont do anything so i assume they have done better security indeed.

btw i am a FF user from versions 0.x but many pages until now dont work well in FF and surfing with IE7 its a blast compared to FF.

My only wish, tabs at bottom :D

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Having seen IE Beta 1, no

knowing the rendering updates in IE Beta 2, i'll be telling people who wont switch to ff or opera, etc. to upgrade.

[MustNotSleep]

just want to point out that whoever switches from Firefox or Opera clearly has no idea about what he's doing.

IE7 is still light years away from the state of a modern browser. so they added tab-browsing... hey Microsoft, 1997 called. they want their innovation in GUIs back.

sticking to Opera indefinitelly, or until Firefox becomes usable.

[theyarecomingforyou]

just want to point out that whoever switches from Firefox or Opera clearly has no idea about what he's doing.

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Not necessarily... if all a person wanted was tabs then IE7 adding them would be plenty enough to warrant them going back to it. However, they could of had tabs with the MSN Toolbar or Maxthon anyway so it's not really very logical.

[way2quik]

if IE7 can allow me to surf the web while at the same time having BT on, then i'm happy.

i don't know if this goes for everyone, but for me, I am unable to load pages with IE6, whereas, FF is able to load websites fine.

i was a happy IE user till my friends introduced to me FireFox. I'm in it for tabbed browsing. :)

[cchasem]

I like girls. When you use Firefox, you get more hot chicks. So until IE has some sort of support for hot chick attraction, im sticking with Firefox.

Hot chicks are delicious.

[GFM]

I would never go back to IE, it's been officially anounced that it is the worst web browser out. All because of the Active X.

[Axel]

I like girls. When you use Firefox, you get more hot chicks. So until IE has some sort of support for hot chick attraction, im sticking with Firefox.

Hot chicks are delicious.

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"Hey baby, I use Firefox, wanna sleep with me?" *Cough* Yeah, lemmi know when that works :p

[dud]

I have found Maxthon (an IE shell) infinitely superior to all other browsers for my purposes. It's extremely intuitive and makes everything easy. IE7 might be decent, but not innovative. I'll wait for a Maxthon variant of it.

Since there is no maxthon on Mac, though, my iBook runs Firefox exclusively. Safari and IE just don't do it for me.

I voted "I already use IE", since the original poster apparently doesn't believe (or doesn't know) there are variants to IE.

[Code.Red]

Really, the only reason I use Firefox is because of its massive library of extensions. There are some very useful ones for firefox that I use, BugMeNot, Image Zoom, AdBlock, etc that just make it much better.

[MustNotSleep]

I have found Maxthon (an IE shell) infinitely superior to all other browsers for my purposes.  It's extremely intuitive and makes everything easy.  IE7 might be decent, but not innovative.  I'll wait for a Maxthon variant of it.

Since there is no maxthon on Mac, though, my iBook runs Firefox exclusively.  Safari and IE just don't do it for me.

I voted "I already use IE", since the original poster apparently doesn't believe (or doesn't know) there are variants to IE.

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i was a Maxthon user too for a couple of years.. i loved the plugins it had, and the features it added to IE.. i have no beef with the IE core, because personally i've never had a problem with it.. i know the sites i visit, and i've learnt to be careful in Windows as it is.. however, i tried out Opera, and not only was it hell of a lot faster in rendering pages and using the interface, and had a generally lower resources usage, but also it had that added element of security of using a non-IE browser.. sure, it doesn't offer the customization level of Firefox, but FF is unusably slower on my system to begin with..

also, there's Opera for OSX and Linux too, and it beats every browser on those systems too.. try it out. you've got nothing to lose.

[Bearded Kirklander]

i was a Maxthon user too for a couple of years.. i loved the plugins it had, and the features it added to IE.. i have no beef with the IE core, because personally i've never had a problem with it.. i know the sites i visit, and i've learnt to be careful in Windows as it is.. however, i tried out Opera, and not only was it hell of a lot faster in rendering pages and using the interface, and had a generally lower resources usage, but also it had that added element of security of using a non-IE browser.. sure, it doesn't offer the customization level of Firefox, but FF is unusably slower on my system to begin with..

also, there's Opera for OSX and Linux too, and it beats every browser on those systems too.. try it out. you've got nothing to lose.

I've tried Opera and simply found it not to my liking.

I like Mozilla browser much better, followed by Firefox when compared to Opera.

But I too prefer Maxthon.

Plus, Opera is adware unless you pay for it, so when the others are all free, it makes just one more notch against Opera for me.