Ok, I lied, I installed it

24 Aug, 2006  software

So I decided to take the plunge and install IE7, even though I said I never would. I just couldn’t help myself, the most recent screenshots that I had seen looked pretty sexy, and it’s in beta 3, hell thats about as good as it gets! :)

Some first impressions:

  • I like the tabs, I haven’t used the new tabs until now, but I really like the small little space where you can click to expand a new tab, thats a great usability feature
  • At first, I really liked not having menubars, it creates so much extra space for the window. I had to put the Links bar back on though, I can’t live without that.
  • I don’t know if IE pulls my preferences from Firefox or what, but Google was installed as the default search engine. Huh? Not msn? Weird……..
  • The one thing that I really miss from Firefox is being able to type CTRL + L and put the focus on the location bar, with the entire url selected.

I’ve decided to use IE7 as my default browser for awhile, we’ll see how it goes.

UPDATE: Of course, when I tried to write this post in IE7, I got some weird error from wordpress saying that I had to ‘enable referrers’ blah blah blah. So I guess I can’t COMPLETELY move to IE7

UPDATE2: I was a day early apparently, MS has just released RC1 of IE7.

2 Comments

  1. Rett said,

    Wrote on August 24, 2006 @ 12:51 pm

    Ben, please never use the words “sexy” and “IE” in the same paragraph ever again. Next time I see you wearing your firefox shirt I’m going to order that you take it off (so I guess that will be no different than any other time we get together, aww yeah)

    Anyway, I was just going to respond to say that I also took the plunge, only because I was beginning to get scared that all of the sites I have built over the last couple years would break in IE7 due to various css hacks. I found this standalone installation that let me keep IE6 as my default so that I can continue to test for the current version while also checking things out in 7. I was happy to find out that nothing breaks. phew.

  2. ben said,

    Wrote on August 24, 2006 @ 1:29 pm

    Ha! Good call, I’ll have to get an IE shirt to balance it out :)

    I don’t install stand alone versions of IE, I’m a risk taker :)

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