IE7. Any problems with it?

[Tafia]

Folks,

Anyone had any problems with IE 7? I have refused the update so far.

Cheers

T

[Don]

Working great for me. Your mileage may vary.

[sixpackpert]

Yep, it doesn't work!!!

Had the beta version for ages and it worked fine. Upgraded to the full version and it loads up ok but after about 5 seconds performs an illegal function and dumps out!!

Uninstalled it, reinstalled it and the same thing happens, gave up.

Firefox 2.0 all the way.

Cheers

Jon

[jamieboy]

Working fine for me too. Some sites don't render properly, but that's typically due to problems with the site rather than the browser.

Edited by jamieboy on Thursday 30th November 17:10

[Plotloss]

Other than being slow, bloated, unweildy, not fixing the patent errors of IE6 and introducing a whole new raft of odd implementations its wonderful.

[catso]

I'm no expert but I find it fine, had no problems and there are some, IMO, improvements over IE6.

[__LEE__]

Plotloss said:

Other than being slow, bloated, unweildy, not fixing the patent errors of IE6 and introducing a whole new raft of odd implementations its wonderful.

Very true.

I think the Microsoft good ideas club has been out to play again.

[dickymint]

Anybody know if it's out on 64bit and tried it. Version 6 is pants on 64 bit so I have to use 32bit.

[orinoco]

Since the update mine keeps changing my mail option to MSOutlook -I go to IE tools options and change it back as my mail but every so often for no apparent reason it swops it back - EXTREEEEEEMely irritating...any suggestions how to keep it on OE other than the one I have tried.

[muttley 59]

dont like it

have gone back to 6

[antonyj]

Quite like it, got it set so that when I open it, hit the home button and I get google, ebay and PH on new tabs....

[Nacnud]

Read the earlier IE7 threads.

In summary...
1) The IE7 browsing experience is much improved and is now on a par with Firefox.
2) Firefox still has the edge for advanced users with it's spell checker and awesome plugins.
3) IE7 fixed quite a few IE6 bugs (e.g. PNG transparency), unfortunately a few new bugs were introduced making some websites look strange or in rare cases unusable. The product I look after only broke under IE7 because we are bending the security model, the fix was dead easy but means we have to make a point release of our product.
4) Firefox has bugs too, it's no better or worse than IE, just different. It's a web developers nightmare, but c'est la vie.

So far it's just me and my IT director using IE7; we both like it.
Only reason that the rest of the company is holding off upgrading is that not all customers have upgraded to the new release.

Having said that - I'm writing this on Firefox

[__LEE__]

If anyone does a full enterprise release of IE7, then they must be very brave or naive.

I am sure if FF obeyed Group Policy a lot of companies would use it. IE7 is a big step over IE6 though, I'm just waiting for all of the inevitable bugs/issues/problems with the new version.

FF does have some problems but is an absolute saint compaired to IE though!

[speedchick]

Bought a new lappy Tuesday and part of the finalising of the software install was IE7, I had a very frustrating day yesterday with it, it kept bringing my home page up as MS and no matter what I did it would not allow me to change it. Also, as I clicked on links etc it kept working offline and telling me to reconnect (never seen this action before)

I didn't like the format of it, ie the refresh, back, forward buttons etc, and the way it kept opening new tabs

I got that annoyed and frustrated with it that I got the OH to remove it and put 6 back on, and I am now very happy (gosh I am easilly pleased!)