New Internet Explorer 7 is shite!

I use IE7 excuslivly at work and experience no crashes. I recommend if you do experience crashes that you ensure to upload the crash report, and if applicable create a user feedback log.

If anyone experiences too intense crashes with IE7, IM me and I'll do my best to help you fix it Yeah, it is a browser that gets lots of bad press, but it is nowhere near as bad as people make out.

For completitions sake, I use both IE7 and Firefox on my home machine

 

The old GUI was horrible, too! It looked all flat and dull, and the buttons made no sense. There were better buttons you could download, though.

 

IE should be banned, Microsoft have a total disregard for web standards and it pisses me off. I'm sick of having to add hacks or mess about with my W3C valid code so that just IE likes it. It took them until IE7 to add proper PNG support! Grr.

Yakumo, once you're used to FF you won't go back, trust me. IE is wank no matter what version it is.

 

I've been a fan of firefox for many years and even ditched Safari for it when I moved over to OS X.

IE6 was fine really however 7 is just terrible, the interface is muddled (what a horrible place for the stop button!).

Trying out the FF 3 beta...I like it!

 

I use FireFox on OSX. It's pretty good I guess. I haven't really used the later versions of Safari so I'm not too sure how good it is.

Netscape will always be my favorite though...

 

it's dead, let it go

 

it's just that so many memories well up inside when i think about netscape... the first time i ever got on the internet was with netscape...

:lol:

 

<blink>how dare you say that</blink> :110:

 

Do you realize how insane that statement is? 1GB of Ram to surf the fucking web?

 

I've only had issues with Firefox probably TWO years ago at least. I honestly didn't think anyone at this point was still using IE, unless they were..."casual" PC users, imo.

 

i use smallerfox it's a beautiful plugin, really.

 

I use Blackjapan and a custom Black theme. White and bright lights hurt my eyes.

As for other plugins, I have the Videodownloader, Flashgot (awesome if you know how to use it with regular expression compatible word processors + tons of links), and Fasterfox.

I'm not sure how much speed I get from Fasterfox, but very rarely do I wait more than....5 or so seconds for some pages to load nowadays, except of course for media oriented sites like Youtube. Thats a far cry from Dial up days.

 

I went back! Have barely touched Firefox in years. I really CAN'T STAND that stupid download interface thing. NO I DO NOT WANT TO STORE MY DOWNLOADS IN A LIST!

Maybe, but we're talking about a Microsoft OS here! They're memory hungry! In all seriousness, though, most people don't just surf the web. They have MSN open. Or Yahoo. Or AIM. Or whatever. Or more than one! Then they have a few browser windows open, or tabs.

Looking at my current usage....

MSN 32Mb
Yahoo 32Mb
ICQ 51Mb
IE7 on this page 7Mb
IE7 on Myspace homepage 66Mb (seems a little excessive!)

Point is, its not just "surfing" as was the case in 1996. People look at videos and picture-rich pages, and they take up lots of RAM. Websites are designed to be used with broadband, not dial-up. And so you will find it is easy to have a browser window open on 1 webpage, regardless of which browser, that is taking up say 100-200Mb. Windows XP itself demands at least 200Mb. Nowadays, 512Mb of RAM simply isn't enough for the average user - BECAUSE the average user wants to look at multimedia content.

And by the way, my 'insane statement' is based on examining the usage of, and upgrading the computers of, several hundred customers. And no, I'm not exaggerating. Yesterday we had 20 PCs in, that's just 1 day and I have been in this profession for most of the decade.

 

Thats why you press the "Clean up" button.:thumbsup:

I don't have to worry about that, as I clear my history almost every 2-3 days by clicking "Clear private data" as well as my downloads.

I've got several odd habits about how I personalize my PC. Its got to the point where only I can use it.:lol:

 

...or I just stick to Internet Explorer and don't have to press anything! :thumbsup::thumbsup:

Seriously, I don't like a browser that doesn't come ready to use. I hate that I first have to install some patch to make it not hog all my RAM (that should be patched in the actual browser), then install a skin to make the buttons not look so dire, then setup my preferences for downloading...... and God knows what else!

 

I gotta agree, I don't like Firefox either. I've been using Opera since 8 and won't go to anything else. IE does annoy me with it's non standards crap.

Code up some HTML and watch as IE mangles it, always sucks.

 

IE7 is the best browser I have used so far.

 

now tell us why :lol:

 

You certainly did not use enough browsers yet :110:

Nah, I'm fine with whatever people like the most, at least we have trimmed down the selection to 3 major rendering engines over the years, sure many require workarounds to make them look the same on every browser or even os and version.

But its like that with almost everything software related.

Web standards and css developments over the past few years are a great step forward to a barrier free browsing experience. Slowly the work is starting to work out, IE started to accept many standards, and it can just improve from now on.

 

Push the clear button.

But you're stating you need 1GB of memory for IE 7 to work fine. That should tell you there's something wrong w/ the application (regardless of what else you're doing).

I won't deny that memory helps, but "throwing memory at the problem" is not a solution. Anyone can throw money at a problem. Not everyone can fix one.

Yet you will use an OS and Browser combo that you say requires more? As someone that services hundreds of computers, why would you have a problem with doing some tweaks. That's what separates tech people from people that pay tech people for help.