October 20, 2006

Anyone install IE7 yet?

Let me be the first to raise my hand on that one.

A recent new policy, outlawing Firefox, at the company I'm working has created a perfect storm for me to install IE7. So I did.

In case you missed it: IE7 was released yesterday. See msdn.microsoft.com for download details.

The good:
  • Memory usage isn't as bad as Firefox
  • The new Favorites menu works really well, open in new tab is a nice feature
  • Quick Tabs is also really cool*If you middle-click on a link on a page, it opens the page in a new tab right next to the tab you are one.
  • Popup blocker is built in
The Bad
  • Takes 15-20 minutes to install, and requires a reboot.
  • It is slower to display than FireFox (I dont have any metrics on that, purely anecdotal)
  • I've seen some issues with Fonts (they jump around from time to time, I last saw this while looking at Digg.com
  • The Find (ctrl-F) still uses the old IE style. I miss the FireFox find.
  • no built in ad-block.

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