Does anyone hate IE7 as much as I do?

[lizskid]

This program is a train wreck. Some new features are nice, but it is riddled with bugs. Shuts down fairly frequently. Rarely can I get a page to load on the first try. Accessing my email? HA, it takes 3-4 tries every time. This is consistent with 2 different systems and 2 operating systems. Anyone else?

 

[Booko]

We don't pronounce it "IE" around our house, but:


AIEEEEEEE!!!

And NO ONE uses it. Ever.

 

[Rough_ER]

I have used it in the past and it's simply insufferable. I use Opera now and love it.

 

[YmirGF]

I rather like IE7 and have no problems whatsover with it. *sigh* It never crashes on my system... I would say this is more indicative of other issues on your systems Lizkid... no doubt many will tell you how very wrong I am... but... what do I care?

 

[lizskid]

No, I appreciate knowing someone does not have my problems with it. I did an internet search and there are pages and pages of the same stuff I am getting, even on the MS user group site.... I am pretty diligent with my system on security, antivirus, bots, etc. I don't have any other problems until I am using IE7. Weird.

 

[Kay]

IE7 was installed on a computer at work. It crashed everytime I used it. Firefox gives me no problems whatsoever. Firefox rules!

 

[NoahideHiker]

Firefox 2 drove me a little crazy at first but I got a patch downloaded that made it more stable. I love the session restore if it does crash and the spell check.

 

[Seraphiel]

M$ software ?!?!?! Are people still using it?
I thought we had pasted the middle ages.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I had to stop and think what "IE7" is. Then I realised its the "other" explorer software.

 

[darkpenguin]

I recomend mozila firefox, IE7 has too many bugs that are way to easy for sites and hackers to manipulate and potentialy harm your computer. I'm running firefox with zone alarm security suite, peer guardian and ad watch. Granted it slows down the internet slightly but i'd rather that then all the bugs that come with IE7. plus firefox has loads of extras which are really either handy or fun! Give it a try!

 

[Gentoo]

I only use IE for Religious Forums, usually I use Firefox, but this site made the browser close when I hit the back button too many times...

So far, I haven't had any problems with IE 7 though.

 

[ChrisP]

And NO ONE uses it. Ever.

^^ This is the way of the future... Get Mozillla. Sure it leaks memory, but it's 10 times the browser IE is.

 

[Tigress]

I recomend mozila firefox, IE7 has too many bugs that are way to easy for sites and hackers to manipulate and potentialy harm your computer. I'm running firefox with zone alarm security suite, peer guardian and ad watch. Granted it slows down the internet slightly but i'd rather that then all the bugs that come with IE7. plus firefox has loads of extras which are really either handy or fun! Give it a try!

I use Firefox and don't find it slows anything down.

IE7 lets all kinds of adware and spyware onto your computer. Trust me, even if you're not having problems, I suggest you check for that kind of thing with IE.

 

[Hirohito18200]

I second the already dominant opinion expressed here.

My only gripe with Firefox is that it crashes on certain myspace profiles... although I'm tempted to say that it's just a lack of exception handling, being that it's only the poorly coded pages that cause it to die.

Tabbed browsing (before IE7), a sexy bookmarks bar, and hawt themes/extensions make the decision brainless.

 

[YmirGF]

I should note that I do use FireFoxey too, but am not overly impressed. (Big deal, it's only a freakin' browser, lol.) Since I have not uninstalled it, that is to its credit I would suppose. Curiously Firefox "owns" 29% of market share as of Nov. 06 with IE7 at 7.5%. I guess that is another curious aspect of the average RF abuser, in that the numbers are definitely scewed in favor of Furfox. (The dominant browser is still IE6.xXx.xXxx at 49.5%.)

 

[ChrisP]

Hey Paul,

People who use the net a lot use Firefox (in my experience anyway). Your average corporate user takes what they're given and is thankful they have net access to whilea way those boring hours at a desk. In businesses globally the browser of default choice is IE. I've had a few people request Firefox installs, but these are usually turned down by their management.

 

[darkpenguin]

i don't think my massive 256meg ram helps my pc's fastness lol, does anyone know what overclocking is and if it harms/speeds up comps? thanks

 

[ChrisP]

Overclocking is making your different components run faster than spec.

It's easy enough to do once you've done it once or twice, but stuff going faster in computer terms means it's running hotter too so there's the risk. It can also cause instability.


Google overclocking <component name> there's plenty of guides out there.

 

[darkpenguin]

Overclocking is making your different components run faster than spec.

It's easy enough to do once you've done it once or twice, but stuff going faster in computer terms means it's running hotter too so there's the risk. It can also cause instability.


Google overclocking <component name> there's plenty of guides out there.

cool thankyou

 

[CaptainXeroid]

I installed it on my wife's laptop and haven't had the problems you guys described , so I will probably put it on her desktop this weekend. The other laptop runs FireFox, and I haven't used IE on that one in more than a year. My iMac runs Safari with no Microsoft allowed.

As for our computer @ work, one runs Win2k, and the other 2 on XP have proprietary software that have been deemed to be incompatible with IE7, and the powers that be have sent us about a dozen URGENT emails warning us not to install it. I guess our IT guys are working feverishly on it.