How is everyone else finding IE7 so far? Better than me I hope.I don't have the programming skills to bump up against the kinds of issue that you define.
Oh - another thing... Selections just completely suck if you resize the text. Beyond inaccurate, they're just silly. To reproduce it, press CTRL and scroll your mouse wheel then make a selection. It's just total non-sense.-Renegade (November 04, 2006, 08:24 AM)
I don't give a (https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/cenzor.gif) about security in IE. IE security is never as bad as the media makes out, and even when it is bad only twits that surf garbage sites get hammered by that.-Renegade (November 04, 2006, 08:22 AM)
It sucks that IE is so full of nasty bugs, since it's so much more lightweight than firefox...-f0dder (November 05, 2006, 09:52 AM)
Why should Firefox be identical in use and startup time to a whole different product I dont really know.Because it's still "just a browser". Even a fresh install without extensions (ie, about as useful as vanilla IE) is still a good amount slower to start than IE. There isn't really any excuse for this - for FF2 they should've spent less time on stuff like forum speel hceking, and more on code cleanups.-dk70
The company I work for has issued an edict banning people from installing IE7, because it doesn't work with their Intranet, nor with the corporate centralised buying system. So much for compatibility...-rjbull (November 05, 2006, 02:50 PM)
Tabbed IE "addons" like Avant and Maxthon aren't slow with tabs, btw.-f0dder (November 05, 2006, 10:20 AM)
Would you even be pleased if it was not "slow"? Face it, you dont like Firefox heh. Dump it.I actually do like firefox, it's starting slowness just annoys me. And the symptomatic treatment is what really annoys me - hacks like preloading and minimize-instead-of-close, and then spending development time on stuff like form spell checker. Oh well.
Whats wrong with Opera? - not just a browser?It has a few minor quirks... it's page caching is overly agressive, which is nice for speed - but means that there's often sites where I have to press Ctrl+R to get the page refreshed. Probably a problem with the site and not Opera, but the end result is the same - an annoyed end-user.
it just boggles my mind though how often microsoft uses some weird user interface stuff that i hate. the idea of removing the menu bar from internet explorer 7? HORRIBLE idea. wtf are these people smoking. ridiculous. it took me 15 minutes of hunting to figure out how to get it back and get to the options..-mouser (November 05, 2006, 01:02 PM)
The reason why IE opens so fast is because explorer.exe is always running in the background. It's also the reason why all IE based browsers open fast.Wrong - I use blackbox as a shell instead of explorer.exe, and xPlorer^2 as file manager. Besides, IE is "iexplore.exe" and not "explorer.exe", and it's just a shimmy for a bunch of DLLs anyway.
If opera or firefox were always running in the background in a similar manner, they could be just as fast at opening.-app103 (November 06, 2006, 04:12 AM)
The reason why IE opens so fast is because explorer.exe is always running in the background. It's also the reason why all IE based browsers open fast.-app103 (November 06, 2006, 04:12 AM)
People, give opera a good try. My guess is that you'll like it.-urlwolf (November 06, 2006, 05:22 AM)
However, due to minor annoyances and the lack of Roboform support, I have had to switch.-Josh (November 06, 2006, 06:04 AM)
However, due to minor annoyances and the lack of Roboform support, I have had to switch.-Josh (November 06, 2006, 06:04 AM)
I also gave up on Opera solely becuase of the lack of Roboform support, as have countless thousands of potential users, judging by the number of forum threads you come across pleading for Roboform support in Opera. On the one hand I can understand why the Opera people don't want to allow extension support. On the other hand, it severely limits their market. Last time I tried Wand, it came a very poor second to Roboform.-johnk (November 06, 2006, 07:57 AM)
I have my own dislikes/annoyances with Opera - cant create profiles, cant save single window sessions-tomos (November 06, 2006, 11:45 AM)
While Opera is fast to display HTML, and quick loading, the way it handles javascript is very slow. This is a common criticism of Opera, and probably the major reason why I don't use it more than I do.-Renegade (November 06, 2006, 11:21 PM)
Offtopic comments/corrections
Quote from: tomos on 06-11-2006, 18:45:12
I have my own dislikes/annoyances with Opera - cant create profiles, cant save single window sessions
for profiles: http://operawiki.info/operaprofiles-nontroppo