Would You Switch Back to IE7?

[ZeroHertz]

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 :)

[AnimeUSA]

Hell no. I'm a loyal Firefox user. The overall focus with Firefox developers is quite different from the developers at Microsoft.

[STanger]

to me the Firefox Developers are more concerned about users feedback and creating useful features that are actually usable .. now compare that to Microsoft developers who let their marketing people do that majority of work for them...imo

[jhaygood86]

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.

[blush]

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.

[macstorm]

Yes :yes:

No questions asked

[tapo]

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.

[theyarecomingforyou]

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.

[Dodgy]

I cant live without mouse gestures and im usually on Win2k, so MS doesnt care about me

I cant use a browser without tabs & mouse gestures, its too hard to search multiple sites quickly, its just not efficient as Opera.

[STanger]

it's rather freaky to me how much time effort and money Microsoft is pouring into IE these days because as soon as they get all their lost market share back it's gonna be the same operandus modi ... they won't do crap to improve IE one bit

[mr_demilord]

Firefox till my last breath! period!

[Krudomanic]

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

[migo]

Definitely, it'll probably be my only browser. The only thing keeping me from using IE now is the lack of tabs. Every other feature that other browsers have can be added to IE through plugins, and there's plenty that can be added to IE but no other browser.

[seta-san]

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.

[fanboynz]

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 :)

[ventrox]

when is IE 7 coming out, if it is?

[kirk]

No.

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

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Totally agree... as soon as m$ has the market they simply drop development until the competitors start to steal users. That's m$ history.

[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

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:

[Jelly2003]

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.

[vcv]

Totally agree... as soon as m$ has the market they simply drop development until the competitors start to steal users. That's m$ history.

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When have they ever done that aside from IE?

They were still going to develop IE for longhorn regardless.

[STanger]

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

[rojack]

until FireFox dissapoints - i'll be sticking by it :)

[HaTeTaTeLLyA]

IE7 is a little too late for me. Microsoft has been slow to add some key featurers that ALL other browsers have.

[Catharsis]

Can't really switch back to IE7 if I've never USED IE7.

Sorry, just being dumb.

[PureEdit]

I would never switch to IE or anything that uses IE. I have hated that browser and the ways it did things since version 4.0.