IE7 released

interman · 10-19-2006, 12:16 PM

Sure, it's a lot safer, and apparently has tabbed browsing, like 500 years after Opera invented it

Not installing IE7 myself, but at least now they have a slightly less rubbish browser.

10-19-2006, 12:54 PM

I have been testing it out for months. It is a major improvement and technologically its a step past the current generation mozilla based browsers. What I would say against it is thats its foundation technology is likely to be full of holes and it is going to take M$ years to find and patch them all.

Gazz · 10-19-2006, 01:34 PM

Sure it's a mayor improvement against the current Mozlliabrowser cause they pretty much copied all and improved that. However, the current Firefox 2 beta browsers are practicly at the same level as IE7 is now and will continue to upgrade. IE is notorius for hardly having any real updates apart from security ones that are hardly found in the Mozilla version anyway.

Gazz · 10-19-2006, 03:48 PM

You can get it here, and check the first security vulnerability here.

Go Firefox for being the safer browser overall.

Dirt_pridE · 10-19-2006, 05:00 PM

are their any major changes in IE7 compared to IE6? Not that i'll use it, firefox ftw. But i was just curious

10-19-2006, 06:41 PM

Ah yes, but you see mozilla isnt quite as secure as people think, it just that there are more PCs with IE on them then Mozilla. Don't get me wrong though, I loved my time using firefox, but as its become more widespread it has become bloated and more security problems have been found.

Also, apart from tabbed-browsing, Microsoft hasnt copied the mozilla engine at all and it shows in its memory footprint and the way it handles HTML. If you look at mozilla based browsers over the last few years you will see that they are actually having to become more like IE, literally because of the IE browser market saturation and they way websites are coded to the most popular browser. Also from a corporate professional point of view. IE in a windows domain is far more controllable through group policies and until mozilla-based broswers allow this, IE will remain dominant in the market.

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10-19-2006, 12:54 PM	#2 (permalink)
GM™ Posts: n/a Hellbux: 0 [Check]	I have been testing it out for months. It is a major improvement and technologically its a step past the current generation mozilla based browsers. What I would say against it is thats its foundation technology is likely to be full of holes and it is going to take M$ years to find and patch them all.

10-19-2006, 06:41 PM	#6 (permalink)
GM™ Posts: n/a Hellbux: 0 [Check]	Ah yes, but you see mozilla isnt quite as secure as people think, it just that there are more PCs with IE on them then Mozilla. Don't get me wrong though, I loved my time using firefox, but as its become more widespread it has become bloated and more security problems have been found. Also, apart from tabbed-browsing, Microsoft hasnt copied the mozilla engine at all and it shows in its memory footprint and the way it handles HTML. If you look at mozilla based browsers over the last few years you will see that they are actually having to become more like IE, literally because of the IE browser market saturation and they way websites are coded to the most popular browser. Also from a corporate professional point of view. IE in a windows domain is far more controllable through group policies and until mozilla-based broswers allow this, IE will remain dominant in the market.