Firefox, only Bluer
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 7.0. So that I could be fair and in-depth on this blog entry I downloaded it a week ago and have been running a few side-by-side comparisons, taste-testing it, if you will.
Man, I was trying really hard to be even-handed about this but I just can't. I've been a die-hard Firefox user since Candy introduced me to the wonders of Open Source a couple years ago.
The new IE looks a dreadful lot like Firefox (my exact comment to a friend was, "gee--Firefox, only bluer" and has essentially the same functionality, plus a few "bonuses".
-It's soft. By that I mean it has the oversized, overly curvaceous, marshmallow-ey design MS has been moving to in it's latest incarnations of anything. I am an angles and corners kinda gal and I really dislike this look, so that right there was a turn-off.
-It's Microsoft, so (yea, I keep coming back to this--it's important) there is a target on it and all viruses out there will be written specifically targeting it and other MS products. Come to think of it, kinda makes me wonder if Firefox will be made vulnerable since the two are so similar now.
-It's sllloooowww. It was released last week and I've been testing it for a week and, in a side-by-side comparison it just flat out loads slower, both the initial load and many site loads.
-It's a bit wonky in the display department, too. Text sizes are a bit off so they overlap, things like that that looked fine in the old IE (wonder if I can get mine back or if I'm stuck with the new one?) and still look fine in Firefox look odd or off in the new IE.
-It's slowed *everything* down. Yea, okay, this could be my imagination and dislike for MS, but it feels like ~everything~ moves slower if I have an IE window open.
That said--if you have someone who needs a MS browser solution, or prefers to stay all MS for support and compatibility issues this is a HUGE improvement over the old version.
Things I liked:
-It has the little 'x' to close a tab on the tab itself and not off to the right.
-No pull down menu to get a new tab-there's a 'tab in waiting' all the time. The downside? The INSANE "You have opened a new tab" screen that I can't make go away!
The best I can say? It's out there, it's available. Check it out for yourself HERE and see what YOU think.
Man, I was trying really hard to be even-handed about this but I just can't. I've been a die-hard Firefox user since Candy introduced me to the wonders of Open Source a couple years ago.
The new IE looks a dreadful lot like Firefox (my exact comment to a friend was, "gee--Firefox, only bluer" and has essentially the same functionality, plus a few "bonuses".
-It's soft. By that I mean it has the oversized, overly curvaceous, marshmallow-ey design MS has been moving to in it's latest incarnations of anything. I am an angles and corners kinda gal and I really dislike this look, so that right there was a turn-off.
-It's Microsoft, so (yea, I keep coming back to this--it's important) there is a target on it and all viruses out there will be written specifically targeting it and other MS products. Come to think of it, kinda makes me wonder if Firefox will be made vulnerable since the two are so similar now.
-It's sllloooowww. It was released last week and I've been testing it for a week and, in a side-by-side comparison it just flat out loads slower, both the initial load and many site loads.
-It's a bit wonky in the display department, too. Text sizes are a bit off so they overlap, things like that that looked fine in the old IE (wonder if I can get mine back or if I'm stuck with the new one?) and still look fine in Firefox look odd or off in the new IE.
-It's slowed *everything* down. Yea, okay, this could be my imagination and dislike for MS, but it feels like ~everything~ moves slower if I have an IE window open.
That said--if you have someone who needs a MS browser solution, or prefers to stay all MS for support and compatibility issues this is a HUGE improvement over the old version.
Things I liked:
-It has the little 'x' to close a tab on the tab itself and not off to the right.
-No pull down menu to get a new tab-there's a 'tab in waiting' all the time. The downside? The INSANE "You have opened a new tab" screen that I can't make go away!
The best I can say? It's out there, it's available. Check it out for yourself HERE and see what YOU think.
posted by Dy at 12:50 PM
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