Windows Internet Explorer 7

[Wildflower Fever]

Sorry if this is old news, but if anyone else has noticed the recent Microsoft upgrade to a new version of IE, could you tell me if you've experienced any "gremlin" type issues as well? Much of my access to a lot of my favorite sites has now changed and/or become unecesarily complicated.:(

[John L]

Mostly, this version of IE strikes me as a "Me Too" release...MIcrosoft added features that Mozilla and Opera users have had for years.

One thing I like, though, is adding several URLs that I go to all the time as my home pages, so now when I click "Home" 4 tabs open, one for each of my four homes.

Only wierd formatting issue I have seen is with some admin consoles. The icons for one console in particular (Plesk) wants to render in a column, rather than a horizontal line. An annoyance, really.

On a related note, the "Gold" versions of Vista and Office 2007 are available for MSDN subscribers. My first piece of advice re: Vista: If you don't have a really good video card and 2 GB RAM, as well as a really late model proc, DON'T upgrade. My kids super machine is very happy with Vista, and it's a nice feature set. My test box, however, is absolutely pig slow with Vista, even with all the eye candy turned off,.. and thats a P4 (Prescott) 3.2 gHz box, Asus MB (Intel chipset) w/ 1.5Gb RAM. I blame the integrated graphics on that MB.

[Amy in Vermont]

I installed IE 7 on one machne to do some testing at work. There's several things I like about it, and several I don't.

[RedjackRyan]

I havent used it much, i prefer Opera and Firefox. I have noticed that it doesnt play well with my admin panels for Kyalla's Korner.. I neither love it nor hate it.

[gisli]

,.. and thats a P4 (Prescott) 3.2 gHz box, Asus MB (Intel chipset) w/ 1.5Gb RAM. I blame the integrated graphics on that MB.

:eek: :eek: ...what language is this??????? Sorry Wildflower for going off topic here, but I read your report, John L about when this forum went down.....phewww thank God I am a gardener, that Janis computer spell sure does seem to work in strange and mysterius ways. John L, never got to thank you for fixing it, so here goes: Thank you for all the work you put in to fix it.....and for what you do here to keep this world running.

About WIE7, I changed to it and it works fine for me, then everything that gets me to Janis Ian web page is fine with me.

PS. even though I now have posted in the geek section.....do not think of me as geek for geek I am not.......wish I was.....but that is a whole lot of another story.

[DaveM]

Mine wants to "stall", especially when more than one window is open. I'll be typing in one window and suddenly discover that the characters are no longer registering or that they stopped for a fraction of a second and restarted, leaving me with half a word somewhere or two words coupled together (I can do this without help, thank you very much). Personally I'd like Version 6 back.

[david uk]

I installed IE7 this morning and although it took a while to install, it has been working fine ever since.

I particularly like 2 things:

1. the ease of flitting from one internet window to another

2. the very unobtrusive nature of the toolbar and the increased space it gives to the website you are actually looking at.

so far so good :)

[DaveM]

Has the "final" version been released yet? I supposedly have the beta. I am finding that several survey companies I "work" with do not support Version 7 yet, and that several times a day two or more attempts are required to bring up a page (it has repeatedly told me it "could not find" eBay!).

I am truly at a loss to see what, if any, improvement there is to this version.

And yet, I am running a dual-core box "with everything"--it worked just fine with IE 6

[JudyR]

I very foolishly downloaded it (because the machine told me to do a computer update.) I didn't like it - especially I didn't like the way I could no longer see how fast a site was loading, down at the bottom of the page. So I asked our IT person, who looked up Microsoft's directions on un-installing it. Then I un-installed it (under his supervision!), and the computer lost its mind. Wouldn't take me anywhere but the original home page. Wouldn't pick up mail very well. He had to take it apart and re-install IE6 before it would work again.
Sometimes I HATE COMPUTERS!!!!

[Dee]

I've heard both glowing reports and horror stories about it, and frankly I don't want many windows open at the same time on my screen. One at a time is more than enough for me wee brain to handle, thankyouverymuch! :cool:

[janisian]

Well, I tried it, and it toasted one of my Vaios... made the web useless to me. But it wouldn't let me roll back to IE6, either. So I went to AOL (!!) and used their browser to get to Opera, downloaded that, and now I'm great.
Microsft, Microsoft...

[Mimi]

I second David UK in both points but can't say that I couldn't live without IE7... ;)

Mimi

[Dee]

Well, I tried it, and it toasted one of my Vaios...

:eek:

Well that cinches it for me. I'll stick with my Version 6.

[Chet]

There's always Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/).