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Beware latest MS Xp upgrade
britishtrident - 16/1/08 at 08:14 AM

The latest Xp maintanance upgrade from M$ will try and install IE7 --- you can just say NO! when it ask if you want to install IE7 after download.

TGR-ECOSSE - 16/1/08 at 08:35 AM

Whats wrong with IE7? I've been using it for months with no problems.

ditchlewis - 16/1/08 at 08:43 AM

go on let us in on the problems as it might explain the problems we have been having at home on all our computers.

Ditch

MikeRJ - 16/1/08 at 09:33 AM

Personally I can not stand the crappy user interface of IE7, and neither can quite a few people I have spoken to. After IE6 it's totaly non-intuitive.

I keep IE6 for the odd web site that Firefox won't render correctly, but I use Firefox 99.9% of the time. Mozilla got tabbed browsing sorted out ages ago, it has a proper, intuitive pull down menu system and has zillions of useful plugins.

NigeEss - 16/1/08 at 09:51 AM

quote:
Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Whats wrong with IE7? I've been using it for months with no problems.


It's a Microsoft product.

britishtrident - 16/1/08 at 10:47 AM

The IE7 interface causes a lot of problems for some users particularly when running on Xp.

BenB - 16/1/08 at 10:49 AM

I only ever use it for Windows updates

If I switched to Linux I wouldn't have to even do that!!!

UncleFista - 16/1/08 at 10:54 AM

quote:
Originally posted by NigeEss
quote:
Originally posted by TGR-ECOSSE
Whats wrong with IE7? I've been using it for months with no problems.


It's a Microsoft product.


So it's the most widely used and popular browser. That doesn't actually say why it's so troublesome, it just sounds like "Microsoft slagging" to me

TGR-ECOSSE - 16/1/08 at 11:34 AM

quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
The IE7 interface causes a lot of problems for some users particularly when running on Xp.

Can you explain why i have not? Some users have problems withother interfaces!
I have found that some people that use alternatives to IE just do it so they can show off to idiots like me and can't realy tell me why anything else is better its just a different way of doing the same thing .

David Jenkins - 16/1/08 at 12:33 PM

I use IE all day at work, because I have to... at home I use Firefox. Various reasons, none of them MS-hating:

1. Neither browser breaks very often, but IE more than FF.
2. Most viruses are written to exploit IE, very few for FF.
3. FF has a huge range of very useful add-ins that really enhance browsing (ad-block, google configuration, 'view image' for over-sized pictures, etc.).
4. I mostly use Linux, but also run 2 Windoze machines - I use FF on all of them for consistency, as they all look and act identically.
5. Firefox gets regular updates.

And it's really easy to install Firefox - just download and run. It doesn't stop you running IE if you want to - you can even get a FF control that swaps you to IE if you can't view the page you're looking at in FF!

David

Oh yes - nearly forgot - Firefox is 100% free, with no ties or 'lock-in' to one particular manufacturer/supplier.


[Edited on 16/1/08 by David Jenkins]

britishtrident - 17/1/08 at 09:07 PM

Using IE is some times unavoidable -- I even have it on my linux PCs (IEs4Lin).


I have tried IE7 twice; both times lasted 5 minutes on my Xp office PC. IE6 had its faults but it had a standard interface with IE7 M$ mucked about with interface why -- because they can Yes IE7 has tabbed browsing every other browserhad it earlier --- SeaMonkey, FireFox, Avant & Opera. Rescued attachment multiIE3.png
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