IE7 Beta
Well, i’ve been playing with this for a good week now and it’s pretty good. It’s a slightly more refined UI than Firefox but lacks the extensible nature of Mozilla. The Zoom feature and view all pages in one window is very neat and I like that.
Tab logic is better than firefox, most people who are new to firefox dont know about the tabs as they are only created when you specify create new tab or install the enhanced tab preferences extension. The fact that IE has put the tabs by default is good.
Wasnt able to mess with the Newzcrawler stuff since it has timed out but I imagine it would be pretty good. Nice to see RSS XML becoming a player in the browser.
There are a few HTML rendering issues, specifically background colours (download.com is an excellent example of this happening). I also managed to crash it by attempting to refresh a page whilst in the view all pages mode but it seems as though that was a one off.
Back and forward buttons sucked ass big time (I dont use anything other than classic appearence on this machine).
Anyway, it’s good and in some ways better than Firefox but the extensions, themes and security of Firefox leave it ahead as far as i am concerned. Time, releases and good community reviews and I may go back to using IE but not anytime soon.
Add comment February 7th, 2006