Internet Explorer 7 Likes and Dislikes

[stiltman]

Like: tab browsing
Like: search bar

Dislike: Address bar location. Actually, I HATE the fact that it's at the top and menu is below it

[stiltman]

For those that care

Here is the registry hack to move the Menu back to the top in IE7:

1. Click Start, Run, and then enter regedit into the runbox
2. Press ENTER or click OK
3. Browse to the following key:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser



4. Click the Edit menu in regedit
5. Select New and then DWORD value
6. The name should be highlighted in the right column. Just type over this to name it:
ITBar7Position
7. Double click your new entry in the right column.
8. Change the value to 1.
9. Close regedit and open IE7 to see the change.

For those registry gurus... here's the process in one swoop:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser]
"ITBar7Position"=dword:00000001

[Poppa_Meth]

Thats a bit better. I don't know why they swapped it around like that. The GUI is the worse part of IE7. Thankfully, I'm primarily a Firefox user.

[starwarrior29]

My main dislike is that when I try to install it I get sent to an error page telling me I need to modify my registry to install it and I'm not comfortable doing that.

[samijubal]

Dislike, Outlook Express is gone, I can't find any way into it.

[stiltman]

Dislike, Outlook Express is gone, I can't find any way into it.

right click on the grey area pretty much anywhere at the top
select Customize Command Bar
select Add or Remove Commands
Select Read Email in the left window
click add
click closed

you might have to use the slider bar next to the home icon

[chesterfield]

not trying to thread jack, but, with past experience, installing IE 7 automaticly enables "CLEAR TYPE" by default, and i hate it---any ideas????? i can disable clear type but when i re-boot, it is enabled again......

[samijubal]

After installing and rebooting, in the options that come up, you can uncheck clear type and reboot and it's gone. After the fact, look here.
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=312460

Makes my LCD look like a projection TV with the convergence off, green or red lines everywhere.

[Poppa_Meth]

I just realized IE7 supports the transparency in the PNG alpha channel. About time!!

[Conquest10]

I just realized IE7 supports the transparency in the PNG alpha channel. About time!!

Finally!! I wonder how long before IE6 users upgrade.

[Poppa_Meth]

Funny thing is, I noticed it while setting up a new website when I inserted a "Get Firefox" logo in PNG format.

[aedipuss]

installed it. had no "favorites", right clicking in the top bars did nothing, no options....... no TABS, just one straight browser window..... it was worthless junk. firefox at least works right after a new install without having to go huh.... wtf.

oh and uninstalling i.e.7 left the machine without a m.s. browser at all. couldn't reinstall i.e. 6 as it kept claiming a "newer" version was still installed.

[lacywest]

installed it. had no "favorites", right clicking in the top bars did nothing, no options....... no TABS, just one straight browser window..... it was worthless junk. firefox at least works right after a new install without having to go huh.... wtf.

oh and uninstalling i.e.7 left the machine without a m.s. browser at all. couldn't reinstall i.e. 6 as it kept claiming a "newer" version was still installed.

I'd like to try it out but ... man ... what if I hate the results too ....

Did you use ... System Restore .... before updating to IE-7 ... would it have done any good ??

How about backing up the registry also.

I much as I ponder ... installing IE-7 ... having to do a reinstall of WIN XP and all the programs I spent days installing does not appeal to me .... whether I do it to my computer ... or my wife's computer that I maintain.

I use my wife's computer for ripping and burning DVDs ... she has the same basic specs as my computer has ... same amount of RAM ... same MOBO ... she has a ATI 9550 video card installed.

Even though I have DVD-RB Pro installed on both computers ... it is her computer that I use to process about 5 or more passes with the CCE encoder when I use DVD-RB Pro.

Takes a little over 300 minutes to process a 5 or 6 pass re-encoding session.

[samijubal]

I installed IE7 on 2 PCs, decided I didn't like it and uninstalled it, both PCs just went back to IE6, no problems. The favorites is the star on the left side of the webpage name.

[Scorpion King]

I tried it. Its junk in my openion. I went back to using Firefox. Much better than IE anyday.

[aedipuss]

lacywest-

i used system restore to get back to before i.e.7 install. set a point beforehand or make sure you have one from yesterday.

[SIRCOOKS]

i really like how it allows me to open multiple home pages on start up, i like the feel, the sharpness of the picture compared to firefox's picture on my monitor, and the tabs are simply marvellous.....i may start to use it more until firefox 2.0 comes out with an update for its tab mix plus add on because with out the add on, it takes me longer to open pages in firefox because i have to go through 2 or 3 steps then it opens. with tab mix plus in firfox i just click on it and it opens in a new tab. IE7 for some odd reason doesnt give me this option or if im wrong please point me in the right direction

[SIRCOOKS]

ohh i forgot to mention that i hate how the favourites are situated, a regular side bar would have done it for me......

[SingSing]

With the release of new versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, the Web has been abuzz with reports on the second outbreak of the browser wars, pitting Microsoft and Mozilla in an overt fight to the death for market share. But that fight is more subtle than most people might assume.

see : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20061030/tc_nf/47444

[Xylob the Destroyer]

DISLIKE: Can't use it with Win2K.

[DereX888]

LOL LOL LOL

"Likes: tabs, search bar" - nothing new, available for YEARS in other browsers...

WHAT IS THERE TO LIKE IN SUCH BUGGY-STRAIGHT-OUT-OF-THE-BOX SOFTWARE?!



Here is small comparison of vulnerabilities and status of their patching as of today:


Internet Explorer 7:
3 known vulnerabilities, ALL UNPATCHED/NOT FIXED
http://secunia.com/product/12366/?task=statistics

FireFox 2.x:
0 vulnerabiities
http://secunia.com/product/12434/?task=statistics

K-Meleon 1.x:
0 vulnerabilities
http://secunia.com/product/12157/?task=statistics




Whats there to "like" or "dislike" about voluntarily infecting your computer with security holes coming from buggy and unsafe software?
To me it sounds like "cancer - likes and dislikes"; yeah, when youre sick you get disability pension without having to work, but would you really like it?

[cim]

Wow, you mean people still use Internet Explorer?

[DereX888]

Wow, you mean people still use Internet Explorer?

and some apparently like it too
Gotta congratulate microsoft their brainwashing techniques

[Xylob the Destroyer]

I like IE.
Maybe because the first app I ever used for internet was Netscape and it was total and utter crap.
Then I used IE and it was so much better....
I tried something else, Mozilla or Firefox or Opera or something like that, but I just couldn't get used to the interface after using IE for so many years.
I tried the other for about a week, but it was just too quirky.

[MozartMan]

i really like how it allows me to open multiple home pages on start up

Opera does it for a long time, and Firefox does it too.

i may start to use it more until firefox 2.0 comes out with an update for its tab mix plus add on because with out the add on, it takes me longer to open pages in firefox because i have to go through 2 or 3 steps then it opens. with tab mix plus in firfox i just click on it and it opens in a new tab. IE7 for some odd reason doesnt give me this option or if im wrong please point me in the right direction

Have you tried Firefox extension called Tabbrowser Preferences?

[SIRCOOKS]

How do i open up the multiple home pages in mozilla...........please explain

[MozartMan]

How do i open up the multiple home pages in mozilla...........please explain

Open pages that you want to open at start up in tabs in the order you want, close all others.
Then go

Tools
Options
Main

and click Use Current Pages button.

[SIRCOOKS]

cool thing you just explained with opening multiple start pages...now i downloaded the tabbrowser preferences add on, and the only thing i can figure out is when i click on a link in my book marks, how do i get it to automatically open a new tab with that link....holla back asap...your gonna make my war between these two browsers more interesting

[MozartMan]

Tools
Options
Tabbed Browsing
Features tab

Select first check box in the General section.

[SIRCOOKS]

what are you other settings cause im still not getting it done....do i need to restart once i change every setting