IE 7

by **Cable** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:36 pm

I know most of you guys use Firefox or something else, but for those who still have the ol' Internet Explorer, anyone got IE 7 yet? I downloaded it without thinking (it just popped up and said 'updates available for Windows') and I haven't decided whether I like it or not. The menus are pretty different and this tab thing is cool (having multiple web page tabs in one Explorer window), but the thing I hate the most is this ClearType font crap. It supposedly makes the text better for LCD monitors (I guess clearer and sharper), but on my LCD monitor it looks like shit, it's all blurry. I haven't even figured out how to get rid of it yet. So, what say you guys? I give it a (N)

, at least until I sort out this font crap.

by **bigh0rt** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:52 pm

I have IE7. I'm not sure what the ClearType stuff you're referring to is?

by **Amphatoast** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 1:56 pm

ill stick to firefox. It basically copied firefox. IE still comes with its issues and not as easy to clean and remove as firefox(well cant be at all), or as customizable.

by **BigKaboom2** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:09 pm

Cleartype is not exclusive to IE7.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cle ... Step1.aspx

You can mess around with it at that site. I don't care for IE7, as I find that default user interface isn't very intuitive. I'll take Opera anyday, and I'll enthusiastically endorse Firefox when they stop it from ballooning to over 100 MB of memory usage when I open three tabs.

by **Scotty** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:45 pm

i just updated it and im not to sure if really like it or not. i prefered having all the options up the top (file, edit, etc.) But things like not having the history button accessable is also very annoying. The only things i like are the tabs up the top and that you dont need to download a google pop up blocker cause it comes with one...
I give it a 5 out of 10. Not bad, but not good.

Bluesky · by **Andrew** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:21 pm

We've got it at work, I'm still considering whether to upgrade my home PC though. I find tabbed browsing handy at times though I don't like the idea of getting rid of the traditional windows menus (File, Edit, View and so on). Apparently there's a way to change the layout so it's similar to IE6 though I haven't messed around with that yet. Apart from that, it's no better or worse than IE6 in my experience.

by **Jugs** on Wed Jan 24, 2007 11:45 pm

Opera >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> IE and Firefox.

by **Tuomas** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:31 am

Meh the only time I used opera it totally fu*ked up all the sites I visited. Firefox (Y)

Every time I use IE I get a attack notice from my F-Secure.

by **[Q]** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:51 am

meh. i've held off on IE7. I'm content with IE6.

by **cyanide** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:32 am

I love ClearType except Cable's right, on PC's (depending on the monitor), it's not well rendered as Apple's built in anti-aliasing system for its OS X. Anyway, Firefox and Opera > IE7.

I'd choose Opera for its speed and easy interface navigation, but because of some of its inconsistencies on web pages, I'd have to go with Firefox. IE 6 just blows so bad considering how far behind it is on the international web standards consortium.

by **Jackal** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 4:58 am

Qballer wrote:meh. i've held off on IE7. I'm content with IE6.

Likewise, I don't get popups on IE6 (no external pop up blocker), it's fast, doesn't eat a lot of my memory and it's not tabbed. I dislike the tab thingie. Even my windows XP isn't allowed to group similiar things, I dislike that. So yeah, I'm sticking for the time being.

by **BigKaboom2** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:20 am

Easy fix - if you want the File/Edit/etc. menus back just right click on the blank space to the right of the tabs and click Menu Bar. (Y)

by **[Q]** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:25 am

Jackal wrote:
Qballer wrote:meh. i've held off on IE7. I'm content with IE6.

Likewise, I don't get popups on IE6 (no external pop up blocker), it's fast, doesn't eat a lot of my memory and it's not tabbed. I dislike the tab thingie. Even my windows XP isn't allowed to group similiar things, I dislike that. So yeah, I'm sticking for the time being.

yeah my roommate jocks apple & firefox so he's always giving me shit like "oh you don't have tabs" and whatever, but I like my "tabs" at the bottom of the screen... leaves more screen space for the pages. i also turned off the feature to group similar tasks because i want to look at the titles of the pages i have open.

by **Jackal** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:52 am

You said it bro, I refuse to work on people's PC that has that group similiar windows feature enabled. Either you disable it and let me fix your stoopid computer or you go pay for it.

by **bigh0rt** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:01 am

I loathe the 'Group Similar Windows' function. It blows.

by **Cable** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:04 am

Yeah you can bring back the old menus pretty easily.

I'm thinking it's my monitor that's the problem cause nothing out there seems to be able to fix this ClearType stuff. That really pisses me off cause it's a good quality monitor. Anyone know if I can revert back to IE 6 somehow? I couldn't find it on the IE website.

by **Jackal** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:08 am

Download IE6 SP1

by **BigKaboom2** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 9:03 am

Cable wrote:Yeah you can bring back the old menus pretty easily.

I'm thinking it's my monitor that's the problem cause nothing out there seems to be able to fix this ClearType stuff. That really pisses me off cause it's a good quality monitor. Anyone know if I can revert back to IE 6 somehow? I couldn't find it on the IE website.

Did you go through the tuning process on that link I gave you?

by **Carmo** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:55 am

Andrew wrote:We've got it at work, I'm still considering whether to upgrade my home PC though. I find tabbed browsing handy at times though I don't like the idea of getting rid of the traditional windows menus (File, Edit, View and so on). Apparently there's a way to change the layout so it's similar to IE6 though I haven't messed around with that yet. Apart from that, it's no better or worse than IE6 in my experience.

You can just hit alt and those traditional menus come up. Don't know if you already knew this, but yeah....lol

by **Gundy** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:03 pm

IE 7 looks smooth and it works great for me. Also, easy acess to deleting browsing history. :wink:

by **Cable** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:14 pm

BigKaboom2 wrote:
Cable wrote:Yeah you can bring back the old menus pretty easily.

I'm thinking it's my monitor that's the problem cause nothing out there seems to be able to fix this ClearType stuff. That really pisses me off cause it's a good quality monitor. Anyone know if I can revert back to IE 6 somehow? I couldn't find it on the IE website.

Did you go through the tuning process on that link I gave you?

Yeah, I've done it twice and messed around with my monitor properties. No luck.

by **Srbija** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:34 pm

I got it yesterday in the Windows Update thing. Pretty good, I like it and yeah, like Carmo posted, you just press Alt and all the windows menus (File, Edit, View etc.) come up.

by **[Q]** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:04 pm

not to sound like a dick or anything, but

Gundy wrote:IE 7 looks smooth and it works great for me. Also, easy acess to deleting browsing history.

i prefer the ol' control+H delete method.

Srbija wrote:I got it yesterday in the Windows Update thing. Pretty good, I like it and yeah, like Carmo posted, you just press Alt and all the windows menus (File, Edit, View etc.) come up.

IE 6 does this too.

by **Carmo** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:40 pm

Qballer wrote:
Srbija wrote:I got it yesterday in the Windows Update thing. Pretty good, I like it and yeah, like Carmo posted, you just press Alt and all the windows menus (File, Edit, View etc.) come up.

IE 6 does this too.

Yeah we weren't saying that IE6 didn't have it. Andrew just didn't think they had these menus. We were just explaining how to show them.

by **Scotty** on Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:56 pm

Qballer wrote:not to sound like a dick or anything, but
Gundy wrote:IE 7 looks smooth and it works great for me. Also, easy acess to deleting browsing history.

i prefer the ol' control+H delete method.

I was going to say something about the browser history deleter, but i decided not to incase people make assumptions :wink:

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