Not Touching IE 7 till RTM
I really don’t foresee myself using any version of IE 7 until its finally released. I usually don’t mind downloading beta, or even alpha, products like Avalon, Indigo, WWF, or Atlas, but with Internet Explorer, its a slightly different story.
Since so many system components rely on the Internet Explorer libraries, when you replace Internet Explorer, you aren’t just getting a buggy, beta browser; you could potentially be crippling an unknown number of other system functionality. I tried googling for a list of stuff that depends on Internet Explorer to give a list, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for, maybe I wasn’t using the right terms, but in any case, upgrading IE to a beta (beta preview, really) just isn’t worth it, especially when I’m not really interested in their new features anyways, and I only use IE to view sites that need it (read: Sharepoint sites).
As soon as the final version is released, I’ll definitely install it, I bet it’ll even turn up on Windows Update at some point, but until then, I’ll stick with Firefox.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 12:32 pm
Yeah, who would have thought that something like Yahoo Messenger or Grouper would be affected by installing the beta? Alas, they are.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 1:41 pm
That’s why Microsoft bought out Virtual PC from whoever created it, and gives it to us MSDN subscribers… I’ll just setup a new XP Pro instance on a VM and dl IE7 into that, to see what all the hoopla is about.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 1:43 pm
just make sure you get the latest update to FireFox (1.5.1?), seems to fix the terrible memory leak problems in 1.5
breichelt said,
Wrote on February 9, 2006 @ 3:45 pm
Oskar, yes, thats a great example with Yahoo! I know they use IE for their music engine as well, so who knows if that would screw up too.
Derick, thats also a good idea, but I never can get the performance from a virtual pc, but maybe i’ll give it a shot when its slow some day
Eber, i definitely upgrade firefox, especially with auto updates turned on
jkimble said,
Wrote on February 10, 2006 @ 9:13 am
Ben,
Did you see this? http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/02/02/437196.aspx
Jon shows you how to run them side by side (sort of)… you can’t run them at exactly the same time, but you can play with IE7 without fully installing it!
breichelt said,
Wrote on February 10, 2006 @ 10:48 am
Jay, I had only seen the method that Scott Hanselman outlined, which sounded like it really screwed your system up! On Jon’s post he says that installing it stand alone mode renders some features unavailable, which is the stuff that I want to see
I’ll probably go the virtual pc route
Anonymous said,
Wrote on February 10, 2006 @ 11:18 am
Yes, very good point. IE7 does affect additional programs. In my case Visual Studio, I’ve blogged on this topic here:
http://blogs.telerik.com/blogs/rumen_stankov/archive/2006/02/07/106.aspx
breichelt said,
Wrote on February 10, 2006 @ 12:07 pm
Oh man! VS uses IE too, wow, that would REALLY annoy me to have that get screwed up! good call Rumen!
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