I'm now playing with IE 7 beta 2. Seems nice, but not as good as Firefox. However, Firefox is clearly what made Microsoft push out IE 7. Let's see what Firefox has done for the world:
- Let the world know how IE 6 sucks
- Let people know that you aren't stuck with IE, you have a choice
- Popularlized the concept of Free software
- Popularlized tabbed browsing
- Forced Microsoft to work harder on IE 7 (which is, frankly, quite nice)
- Forced Opera to strip out the ads and be totally free
- Reminded lazy website managers about the importance of standards and browser interoperability.
- Made web surfing a much better experience
- Taught the world that there's something called a "browser", and it's not "just the blue E"
Now, about IE 7.
The new interface seems nice, clean and provides more space for your webpages. I expecially like the way they made adding new tabs stright foward. But here's the complaints:
- You need to "click to activate" flash movies before they work.
- Takes a long time and a reboot to install.
- There's no way to import bookmarks from other browsers.
- No bookmarks toolbar, you need to dig-into the favortes menu.
- Slower then Firefox to activate.
So, IE 7 is my new toy, while Firefox sticks as my main browser :)
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