Several months later,how are you liking/disliking IE7?

[lildreamer316]

I upgraded when prompted at first, and then spent a full day on the phone to HP and Microsoft Tech Support (INDIA!!!) trying to figure out why my laptop would suddenly not connect to the internet. After several frustrating hours, got OFF the phone and solved the damn problem ALL BY MYSELF (YAY for the blonde stripper!! Who knew??) It was an stealth upgrade included in the IE7 package to Norton; which I promptly deleted completely, but not before I had uninstalled 7 and gone back to 6.
Now I'm wondering if I should go ahead and re-upgrade to 7; since that shouldn't be a problem anymore.
Yes? No?
Please no pushing to go to Firefox; husband uses this for work and I have to stick with IE.




(this is also part of the effort to bury the you-know-what threads)

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. I abandoned IE7 almost immediately.

I'm not pushing you to Firefox, but that's the browser I use and love now. :)

[lildreamer316]

4. I know, I know..

see below.
Maybe next year...

[patricia92243]

22. I lasted two days. Then removed it and went back to IE6. I have OneCare and it keeps wanting me

to go to IE7. I just ignore it.

[av8rdave]

40. same here

[Deja Q]

2. Don't you dare prove Americans are smarter than Indians!!!

You'll make Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Steve Jobs, and the rest of them lose their credibility over their reasonings to offshore and we just can't have that! :wow:

I still prefer Firefox; IE7's alteration of the UI is the downside that still bugs me. I like the phishing filter FWIW, but those scams are easily spotted and Firefox has more to offer anyway. Even a crap one, its spell checker IS one.

[lildreamer316]

3. I wish..

we could change,but no go.
Maybe when I start my own biz...

Eh, those techs are just following the book anyway; I know that. Sigh.:-)

[Deja Q]

5. Reading cue cards isn't the act of a tech. It's the act of a parrot.

techs know the innards of a system and as such are infinitely more valuable than parrots.

[lildreamer316]

7. True..

It was infinately frustrating; to know that I know more than they do, and I don't know SHIT.
I figured it out quick-like; though!

[GirlinContempt]

42. American techs do the same thing.

And outsource to Canada.

Who's smarter now?

[PeaceNikki]

6. I love it! And Firefox is a resource HOG in comparision!

IE loads in about 1/4 the time as FF and FF crashes CONSTANTLY.

The "Phishing Filter" causes slowdowns, but if you're smart enough to not get scammed, turn it off.

[lildreamer316]

8. Just FMI, is it easy to turn off?

so that I go in forearmed, that is.

[PeaceNikki]

9. Real easy...

To disable automatic Web site checking:

Within Internet Explorer, click Internet Options from the Tools menu.
Click the Advanced tab.
Under the phishing filter, select Turn off automatic Website checking.
Click OK.

[lildreamer316]

10. Oh, thank you..

I get (ADD) easily distracted and forget to turn stuff off I meant to.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. I can't say I've ever had that problem with Firefox.

[SPKrazy]

17. I can't either

maybe it's a conflict with their machine? I don't have problems with firefox while IE7 takes twice the time as firefox and tries to load every damned thing up along with it.

firefox is leaner

[Omphaloskepsis]

13. A couple of fixes for Firefox performance problems.

1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

When you minimize Firefox it releases RAM that is normally used for the cache.


Another about:config hack:

change browser.cache.memory.capacity to something more reasonable.

"For RAM sizes between 512BM and 1GB, start with 15000. For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000."

[SPKrazy]

16. Bull, Firefox Doesn't Crash On Me And It IS FASTER!

IE sucks

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

34. Bull? I can't have an opinion?

:shrug:

It does crash and it is slower... I think FF sucks, so there. :P

[SPKrazy]

39. Mine's not!

Neener! :P

of course you can have an opinion but you stated it as if it were fact

I've run IE7 on two different computers and found that FF is faster on both and less of a spacehog as well.

Firefox rocks

you...

Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

11. Several years laster, I'm still using Firefox.

[lildreamer316]

31. Hee hee.

:hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

32. Really though, even if a person isn't fond of Firefox, they STILL shouldn't use IE.

Opera owns the shit out of IE as well.

[lildreamer316]

33. Tell it to my husband.

Stubborn, he is.
I'll try...

[ghostsofgiants]

35. Firefox wins out for its extensions though.

Adblock is a godsend.

But at least Opera is both more secure than IE, and it's standards compliant, which means web designers' lives are a little easier.

[conscious evolution]

14. I have had no problem with it

It took a while to figure out but I have no trouble with it anymore.
Plus,my pc is 7 years old.You would think that would cause problems but it doesn't seem to be the case.It never crashes or seizes up on me.Sometimes when an automatic update starts it crawls but that is more a hardware problem than anything relating to IE7.

[SPKrazy]

15. I Use Firefox

don't like IE at all

Mozilla is better in my opinion it has fewer conflicts, takes less time to load, and is faster...

:shrug:

besides Bill Gates has a little less info on me, although I still get windows updates so probably not much less.

[Little Wing]

18. it's tabbed implementation sucks

the new layout scheme simply makes it take more time to do everything

[ghostsofgiants]

19. And it STILL isn't standards compliant.

[mr blur]

20. Run Firefox AND IE

then everyone's happy.

[havocmom]

21. I still love Firefox. The IE impersonation of it still sux

[billyskank]

23. Okay, next time I have computer problems I'm calling for a blonde stripper.

Now I know who to ask. :D

Anyways, you're not dumb. You already gave the game away with your sig line: "No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced."

AND you quote Blackadder.

[lildreamer316]

28. Oh dear.

I luuuuuuuuuuve you!
You doin' ok??
:hug:

[billyskank]

43. Oh dear?

What's the matter? :hug:

:loveya:

[jobycom]

24. I love it, Alec Baldwin loves it, his daughter loves it...

Sorry.

I like it. It's got the advantages of Firefox without some of the incompatibility problems. Plus, the design is way cooler. I loved Firefox for many years, but before IE7 came out, it was starting to drive me crazy. I switched to the Beta IE7 at first, but it had a couple of issues on some of my favorite sites, so I dumped it. But the full release version doesn't have those issues, and I've been thrilled with it.

Now Firefox has to bump it up again.

[lildreamer316]

29. *smack*

that was baaaaaaaaaad.

Thanks for the input. I am considering it.;)

[LostInAnomie]

25. IE7 runs like shit on my PC

The fucking thing keeps scrolling for 7 turns on my wheel every time I try to use it.

[dropkickpa]

26. I use it and like it a lot

Haven't had any problems and my machine is almost 6 years old. I will still run multiple windows when I am doing several things at once, I love that I can organize all my tabs on, say, news sites, and keep all my other crap separate.

I am usually on 3-8 websites at any one time, ADD is good for that.

[Left Is Write]

27. I don't use IE so I don't know.

I do have both IE and Firefox, so I COULD use it if I wanted to; I just don't.

Can you have both on your computer? That way your husband can use IE and you can use Firefox.

[lildreamer316]

30. Not the laptop..

but maybe the desktop.
I'll have to check the free space.

[Solon]

36. Firefox generally doesn't take up more than 15-20 megabytes...

It depends on how many optional themes or extensions you choose to install, but the base install isn't much more than 15 megabytes or so.

[lildreamer316]

37. That might be workable...

Keep in mind I have a $375 laptop....:7

[CatholicEdHead]

38. Upgraded to it, still have it, but use Firefox 2.x most of the time

before and after it. I still can't find anything in the $%$&#($ interface.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

41. I haven't used IE in ages.

I've been using firefox for a couple of years now and I love it!
Duckie