Guest MJG Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Been a keen and avid user of Firefox for many months now - but I see MS are catching up and IE 7 (beta) is now out and includes a rather clever variation on the tabbed browsing feature pioneered by FF. Any one using it - I am wary of downloading a beta of just about anything but was wondered if anybody in here had, had the courage to do it........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Humphreys Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 I have been using IE7 for about 3 months. The only problem I have had with it is not being to upload pictures to ebay. All the forums I use seem to be ok with it. Yes I think they have used/copied/borrowed some things from Firefox. Paul Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkieB Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 definitely FF-inspired, as you say tabs + 'clear all browsing history', the search bar is good, makes address bar searches much quicker too; now that I've noticed the 'classic' menu isn't necessary, looks as though it really is less intrusive into viewing area, too. seems to work well so far, thumbs up for Microsoft this time at least! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomaxcars Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 I do a lot of web development and so run IE, Firefox and Opera. I personally think Opera is a far superior browser to either of its competitors. Tiled tabs, zoom, duplicate tabs - much more control of the browsing environment. The banner ads present in Opera used to irritate users - but those are now gone. I am an advocate of open source - but despite all the people developing plugins for firefox - I find myself looking for plugins for firefox to at least match the functionality of opera. Also mozilla/firefox didn't invent tabbed browsing - a program called netcaptor is cited as being the first implemented use of tabbed browsing. Cheers, Andrew. P.S. I don't work for Opera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbarton Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 I stopped using FF & Opera in favour of Avant browser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Question re speed - Firefox is much much faster than IE6 on a slow connection like wot I ave, how does IE7 compare with this? I like Firefox, I accidentally opened the forum in IE6 just now and it was so slow I thought the computer had crashed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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